Please All and You Will Please None
A man and his soon were once going with their donkey to a market. As they were walking along, a countryman passed them and said, “You fools! What is a donkey for but to ride upon?”
So, the man put the boy on the donkey and they went on their way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said, “see that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides.”
So the man had his boy get off, and got on himself. But they hadn’t gone far when they passed two woman, one of whom said to the other, “Shame on that lazy lout to make his poor little son trudge along.”
The man didn’t know what to do, but at the last he took his boy up before him on the donkey. By this time, they had come to the town and passers-by began to jeer and point at them. The man said, “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor donkey of yours, you and your hulking son?”
The man and boy got off and tried to think what to do. They thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a pole, tied the donkey’s feet to it, and raised the pole and the donkey to their shoulders. They went along amid the laughter of all who met them till they came to a bridge, when the donkey, getting one of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the boy to drip his end of the pole. In the struggle the donkey feel over the bridge, an so did the man and the boy.
Finally and old man who had followed them said, “That will teach you. Please all and you will please none,”
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