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266.The Oxen and the Axle-Trees
A HEAVY WAGON was being dragged along a country lane by a team of oxen. The axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels:
“Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labour, and we, not you, ought to cry out.”
❖ Maybe those who suffer most cry out the least.