The athlete

The shepherd to the owner in a city has gathered. Has dragged for ears the poor creature of a donkey from a stall and began to fit out for a trip.

The shepherd on a donkey has put a laying, on a laying a saddle wooden, on a saddle-sermjagu. Has tightened a girth more tightly, has looked - all right, it is possible now and to load the goods.

Took the shepherd four big pumpkin large bottles with milk and has hung up them on a donkey - two on the right, two at the left. Has then brought eight circles sheep to cheese and them on a donkey has loaded: four on the right, four at the left. Well, - thinks, - will suffice! Yes far from it: just there have the day before arrived two master's sonnies on сыроварню, - it is necessary to bring them also! There is nothing, took - the shepherd two rugs, has thrown them on a saddle atop сермяги, has planted on them of children yes not somehow, and a back to each other that have not fought in road, the friend the friend of an eye have not scratched.

The shepherd has got tired. Costs - sweat from the person wipes. Suddenly - from nowhere - a flea: has jumped to the shepherd on a sleeve, from a sleeve on a donkey, has looked to the right, has looked on the left, and it was hammered into folds of a soft laying. "I will sit, - thinks, - in a shade. Day today the hot. A pine of hour or so, and there I will have a look, that will be".

Took the shepherd in hands a stick, has whistled, has shouted and has sent on errands, a donkey on road to a city. The sun scorches, and the shepherd all goes yes goes, - know to itself a donkey adjusts. Sweat hailstones from the shepherd pours, children absolutely разморило, at a donkey from weight of a foot bend, and a flea that? Sleeps on a soft laying, on an asinine back as in a cradle, shakes!

Only by the evening they have reached a city and have driven on a master's court yard. Here and the flea has woken up. From under a laying has jumped out, has looked round, and as увидала, that for mountain towers at a donkey on a back, - has bragged away, has started shouting:

- Ah yes I! Look, kind people what I weight dragged! Here I what athlete! Anybody силою will not be compared to me!

So the flea has told and has jumped to the shepherd on a sleeve.

The shepherd carries load in the house, and the flea sits at it on a sleeve and laughs:

- And this weight to me at all! Here I drag what cheeses!

The shepherd of a donkey has unloaded and has begun to weaken a girth to remove from a donkey a wooden saddle.

The disappointment took a flea:

- See you! I on myself such weight bore also that not пикнула, and the shepherd looks after the simpleton-donkey. And the donkey is good - costs, a head has hung up, feet has bent, hardly sideways does not fall - has absolutely become limp. I of less his ear and that do not complain. Give I it I will teach a good lesson, the idler!

Without thinking twice, the flea to directly donkey On a muzzle has jumped and has bitten very much.

The donkey, брыкнулся has shuddered, has overturned large bottles - all milk has poured. The shepherd has become angry yes as will strike a donkey a stick - just in that place where the flea sat. So has knocked - anything from a powerful flea does not remain.

Well - so also it is necessary to it: did not work, so do not brag.