Show daddy dadd y s bedtime 1 st the donkey s ory burden VV V V ibi my but thit that water Is very deceiving wl you have bare anything to do it is best to do it without grumbling or com IF V pla ining said daddy one evening to jack and evelyn it if the donkey j in this story had done so he would not have bare got into the trouble he did lie ile was a rather clever donkey and it did not please him that his master trade ronde him carry heavy beary loads leads on ills his back nis ills master wits was a dealer in salt and he be used to load two heavy bags of the salt bait on oa the donkeys back N whenever he wanted them carried into town the road to the town led a brook there was a bridge over the I 1 rook and the man drove the donkey over the bridge one hot day however I 1 lie ile donkey thought it was too warm arm to carry heavy tongs bags of salt on his back mid and as he be approached the bridge lie he said to himself now liow nice and cool that water looks I 1 think I 1 will just wade through the hie water to the other side of the bridge instead of walking over the old dwidge but that plan did not please the donkeys roaster master for he knew that it if the lie later iter reached the bags ang of salt it would melt and lie would lose it so lie he datore the donkey with blows of his stick to lo tile hie banle and across it you JIT jimy be sure the donkey did not like such treatment tile the uel dext day as they neared the bridge he said to himself this is when volien I 1 shall fool the master and when the train man was riot not watching him closely the donkey rau ran away and waded into the water quite to in the other side of the bridge in the middle the hie water waier reached almost to ills lack back and of course when it touched the big the salt began to melt so the ii master aster lost a good part of the donkeys burden when the donkey reached ilie hie other side he was greatly pleased to find that his burden was so much 1 lighter abter than it had been before a very good idea lie he said to himself I 1 think I 1 shall try it every time my master puts it a heavy burden on my back but the man was just as wise as tile the donkey the next time he be loaded the donkey with a lot of sponges they were quite lizbet of course and tile the liniev conkey lin kev was pleased but nevertheless when he reached the brook the water hiked so cool coal and inviting that he be could not resist the temptation to wade into it of course when the water reached the ling bag of sponges they began to swell nod by the time the donkey got to the other side of the brook they were quite lull of water and heavy then the donkey cloakey said to himself ily but that water Is very dec cecchin chin when I 1 went into it wl with th a beary burden it made it light and when I 1 go into it wilh it a light burden it sakes iukes it heavy you cant depend on it I 1 think I 1 shall remain out of it il |