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CHAPTER XXXIII
Seeing that the door did not open, the driver gave it a violent kick. It fell and he entered the room saying in his usual oily way, “Good boys! You bray very well. I recognize your voices and here I am to take you away.”
At these words the two little donkeys became quiet. They lowered their heads and ears and put their tails between their legs.
At first the driver patted them and smoothed their hair. After that he pulled out some leather straps and bridled them both. When he had curried them so that they looked like two looking-glasses,
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