Once, a gardener had a donkey who lived in his big farm. He was very much in the habit of beautiful flowers, so he visited every week to the market to bring different types of flowers and manure. He also took his donkey to carry his load. Once he went to the market and got huge sacks of manure. On his way back home, he loaded his donkey as usual. The climb to the town was steep. Along the way, he saw some wood and thought, ‘This would be useful in my garden.’ He placed some logs on the donkey saying, “This is hardly any weight.”
After sometime, he came across some sugarcane fields. ‘Let me have one or two,’ he thought and loaded the donkey again. After climbing for a while, he felt hot and unbuttoned his coat. As he was about to place it on the donkey, the donkey collapsed and couldn’t get up. He realised his mistake and decided not to be unkind ever to his donkey again.
