attr. Æsop, Three Hundred Aesop's Fables — The Salt Merchant and his Ass (1887)
“ The Pedlar saw through his trick, and drove him for the third time to the coast, where he bought a cargo of sponges instead of salt. The Ass, again playing the knave, when he reached the stream, fell down on purpose, when the sponges becoming swollen with the water, his load was very greatly increased ”
