Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/554/en

Horse and Donkey

Contrary as they are in temperament despite close kinship, both are — as riding, pack-bearing, and draught animals — the most faithful helpers of the human being, traceable back to the times of the ancient Persian cultural epoch, to the fourth and fifth millennia before the turn of time. The horse carried the human being on his great cross-country journeys of wandering and conquest; it was the means of travel from place to place, marched with him into great battles; it fought under his guidance and leadership, and gave itself up in sacrifice. It drew the plough furrow by furrow and brought in the harvest on the high-laden hayrack. Endless services has the horse rendered to the human being, and unspeakable sacrifices brought in doing so. And likewise the donkey — the equally willing and stubborn riding animal, the pack-bearer of the peasant and craftsman down to the companion of the beggar. All the burdens of daily life were heaped upon this small, thin-legged donkey; with sure-footed step