The Ass Pretending to Limp and the Wolf

An ass, grazing in a meadow, seeing a wolf coming towards him, pretended to limp. The wolf, having come up, asked him why he was limping. He replied that, in getting over a fence, he had set his foot on a thorn, and he begged the wolf to remove it first, after which he could eat him without piercing his mouth in chewing. The wolf let himself be persuaded. While he was lifting the ass's foot and fixing all his attention on the hoof, the ass, with a kick in the jaw, knocked out his teeth. And the wolf, in a bad way, said, "I richly deserve it; for why, having learned the butcher's trade from my father, did I want, for my part, to try my hand at medicine?"