Tale

 1 Skin  |                                The Ass in the Lion's Skin~AT the
 2 Skin  | trafficking in goods carried by an ass. Now at each place he came
 3 Skin  |        took the pack down from the ass's back, he used to clothe
 4 Skin  |     watchmen in the fields saw the ass, they dared not go near
 5 Skin  |   breakfast cooked, he dressed the ass in a lion's skin, and turned
 6 Skin  |        with the fear of death, the ass uttered a cry - the bray
 7 Skin  |     uttered a cry - the bray of an ass!~And when he knew him then
 8 Skin  |          he knew him then to be an ass, the future Buddha pronounced
 9 Skin  |            s skin,~'Tis a wretched ass that roars!".~But when the
10 Skin  |         knew the creature to be an ass, they beat him till his
11 Skin  |        hawker came; and seeing the ass fallen into so bad a plight,
12 Skin  |      Second Verse:~"Long might the ass,~Clad in a lion's skin,~
13 Skin  |            he was yet speaking the ass died on the spot!~
14 GeNote|            Man, his Son, and their Ass, which they ride or carry
15 StNote|          other folk-tales.~XX. THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN.~Source. -
16 StNote|           be little doubt that the Ass in the Lion's Skin is from