A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): an old Miller and his Son, taking their Ass to market, change what they do for every passer-by who laughs or scolds, until they are carrying the Ass on a pole and lose him in the river.
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Once there was an old Miller. He had a Son and an Ass, a kind of donkey. One morning, off they went to sell the Ass at market.
They let the Ass walk slowly, to keep him fresh for selling. Clip, clop, clip, clop.
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