The Oxen and the Logs

For the #RamadanReadathon at Twitter, I want to highlight some story collections that people might enjoy reading, featuring free full-text books online; here are all the books I've featured so far, including a 100-word story for each one too.

So, today's book is Turkish Literature: Fables translated by Epiphaneius Wilson. See details below, and here is a story from that collection:

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The Oxen and the Logs

Two lazy oxen were pulling a log. They were going slowly, although the log was not very heavy.
"Hey, oxen!" shouted the log. "I'm not so heavy. Since you are such big, strong oxen, I would think you would gallop right along!"
"It's true you are not very heavy," said one of the oxen. "But if we were to go along any faster than this, the humans would add more logs to our load."
"And you would be probably be crushed beneath those other logs," said the other ox. "So really: we're doing this all for you!"

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You can find a longer version of that story, and many other stories besides, in the online book, which is available at Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, and Google Books.
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