After this I stretch out one foot and move it a couple
of times over the horse's body, and then he is combed and cleaned. Who
is going to make a great business of that? Nevertheless service is too
toilsome for me."
The third said, "Why plague oneself with work? Nothing comes of it! I
laid myself in the sun, and fell asleep. It began to rain a little,
but why should I get up? I let it rain on in God's name. At last came
a splashing shower, so heavy indeed, that it pulled the hair out of my
head and washed it away, and I got a hole in the skull; I put a plaster
on it, and then it was all right. I have already had several injuries
of that kind."
The fourth said, "If I am to undertake a piece of work, I first loiter
about for an hour that I may save up my strength. After that I begin
quite slowly, and ask if no one is there who could help me. Then I let
him do the chief of the work, and in reality only look on; but that also
is still too much for me."
The fifth said, "What does that matter? Just think, I am to take away the
manure from the horse's stable, and load the cart with it.
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