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Amazed at this unaccountable conduct of these people, the lad resisted at first, but as they persisted, he grew furious. After receiving many a cuff from the lad, a happy idea struck the washer man’s wife: turning to her husband, she said, “Go you and fetch his peg, rope and grain-bag; perhaps they might remind him of what he was once”.
The washer man in hot haste went home and fetched them. But it seemed to make matters worse. The washer man held up each of these articles to the young man’s view, and said, in the most persuasive tone he could command, “Come home, my son. Do you forget the day you were my donkey? This was the peg to which I would tether you, this tether rope, and this food-bag; come to your home”.
By this time, a jeering crowd had gathered round the young man, and this so infuriated him that he turned to and gave the washer man the soundest thrashing he had ever received in his life. The poor washer man went home thoroughly convinced that what fate had ordained, it was useless to fight against, looking upon his punishment as a just return for his presumption.
Moral: Accept what is due to us and do not fight against it.
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