A certain man had a Donkey, which had carried the corn-sacks to the mill faithfully for many a long year; but his strength was going, and he was growing more and more unfit for work.
Then his master began to consider how he might best save his keep; but the Donkey, seeing that no good wind was blowing, ran away and set out on the road to Bremen.
“There,” he thought, “I can surely be town-musician.”
When he had walked some distance, he found a Hound lying on the road, gasping like one who had