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Updated: June 22, 2025
The Deaf Man said: "The dancing is very good, but the music is not worth listening to"; and the Blind Man said: "On the contrary, I think the music very good, but the dancing is not worth looking at." The Deaf Man said to the Blind Man: "Brother, here are a Donkey and a washerman's great big kettle, with nobody to own them! Let us take them with us they may be useful to us some day."
"Bring me the creature's heart; it is just what I want for supper." "But there is no heart," answered the hare, looking up at the lion with a puzzled face. "What nonsense!" said the lion. "As if every beast had not got a heart. What do you mean?" "This is a washerman's donkey," replied the hare gravely. "Well, and suppose it is?" "Oh, fie!" exclaimed the hare.
The General Order appointing a Washerman's Day came none too soon. Up and down Buffalo Run, in the zero weather, the men stripped and bathed. Soap was not yet the scarce and valuable commodity it was to become; there was soap enough for all and the camp kettles were filled from the stream as soon as emptied.
Unless a man stand still and upright, the end of this garment is continually slipping down from his shoulders; one of the washerman's hands, therefore, is employed in holding it in its place; the other grasps a stick upon which he leans while stamping a war-dance with his feet upon the linen.
'Did you really never hear of the washerman's donkey? asked the monkey, who was enjoying himself immensely. 'Why, he is the beast who has no heart. And as I am not feeling very well, and am afraid to start while the sun is so high lest I should get a sunstroke, if you like, I will come a little nearer and tell you his story.
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