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An Ass and Mule carried cargo. The Ass tired and asked for help but got none. The Mule ended up carrying the dead Ass.

[Note: The indexing of this fable seems to have some problems. The story associated in many collections with this Perry number is often identical with Perry 263 as we see in Chambry’s version here. Others, however, tell the fable as an Ox and Ass yoked together with the Ass not helping when asked. The Ox later dies and is loaded on the Ass who, overloaded, also dies. A flock of birds talks about how, if the Ass had helped, both might have lived. I have not yet found that version linked to a different Perry number.]

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