When I was old
enough – I think I was about six years old – I was allowed to go outside the
city walls with other boys. The older ones tended small flocks of sheep, or
grazed donkeys and goats. If we begged enough the older boys would let us ride
on the donkeys, but they always made us get off after only a little while so
that the donkeys could graze. The donkeys were hobbled so that they would not
run away. Donkeys may refuse to move at all, but if they want to go they will
run away. I have known people like that. (From Samuel, Seer, by Gordon C. Krantz) http://tinyurl.com/nahwsqu
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