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The Ass and the Lapdog'

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Aesop (c. 620 BCE–c. 564 BCE)

InferredFuller explicitly names "the Aesopian fable of the donkey that tried to imitate the gambols of the little dog." This is Aesop's fable "The Ass and the Lapdog," in which an ass tries to ingratiate himself with his master by mimicking the lapdog's frisking, and is beaten for his trouble.

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Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p293

Inferred Fuller explicitly names "the Aesopian fable of the donkey that tried to imitate the gambols of the little dog." This is Aesop's fable "The Ass and the Lapdog," in which an ass tries to ingratiate himself with his master by mimicking the lapdog's frisking, and is beaten for his trouble.