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A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that
he should try out the animal before he bought him. He took the
Ass home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon
which the new animal left all the others and at once joined the one
that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all.
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owner. On being asked how,
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that he will be just the same as the one he chose for his
companion."
A man is known by the company he keeps.