ABSTRACT
A Venetian who was going to Treviso was riding a horse which he had hired, and behind him, on foot, followed his servant. On the way, the servant had a kick in the leg from the horse, and, angered by the pain, he seized a stone to throw it at the animal, but it hit his master in the small of the back instead. The stupid master thought that the hurt came from a kick of the horse, and when he reproved his servant, who in consequence of the pain he was suffering followed slowly, the latter replied: " I cannot walk any faster for the pain which the horse's kick causes me."
