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These stories provided by children's author Rick Walton's Online Library.
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The Ass and His Purchaser
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A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he should try out the animal before he bought him. He
took the Ass home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which the new animal left all the others and
at once joined the one that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all. Seeing this, the man put a halter on him
and led him back to his owner. On being asked how, in so short a time, he could have made a trial of him, he answered,
"I do not need a trial; I know that he will be just the same as the one he chose for his companion."
A man is known by the company he keeps.
(from Aesop's Fables, translated by George Townsend)
Picture Credits
Original bunny climbing rope picture by Paige Miglio (copyright 2000 ©) from One More Bunny authored by Rick Walton.
Original purple monster picture by Renee Williams-Andriani (copyright 1998 ©) from Really, Really Bad School Jokes authored by Rick Walton.
Original bullfrog seated picture by Chris McAllister (copyright 1999 ©) from Bullfrog Pops! authored by Rick Walton.
Electronic modifications by Ann Walton.
Last updated: September 27, 2003
