Chapter 30
A heifer that ran wild in the fields and had never felt the yoke derided an ox at plow for submitting himself to such labour and drudgery. The ox said nothing but went on with his work. Not long after this incident, there was a great festival. The ox was granted a holiday, but the heifer was led off to be sacrificed at the altar.
“If this is the reward for your idleness,” the ox said, “then I think my work is more rewarding than your play. Indeed, I’d rather have my neck feel the yoke than the ax.”
Longer life for the toiling, shorter for the frolicking.
