The Ass in the Tiger's skin

In a settlement there lived a washer man who owned a donkey. For lack of fodder this donkey grew very feeble. As he roamed in the forest, the washer man found the skin of a dead tiger, and that started him thinking, ‘Ah! What a piece of good luck. I can wrap this tiger-skin round my poor old donkey and let him loose in a barley fields at night. Thinking that it’s a tiger, the farmers will be afraid to drive him off.’ The washer man carried out his plan and his donkey grazed in the fields and ate barley to his heart’s content. Early in the morning the washer man led donkey back home. And as time went on he grew so plump that his master found it hard to lead him to the tying-post. One day, the donkey while grazing, heard the sound of a she-donkey braying in distance. The instant he heard that, he too started braying loudly in response. The farmers heard him and talked among themselves: ‘’Good heavens! This is a donkey in disguise.’’ Realizing the truth, they killed him with stones and arrows and blows from wooden staves. Therefore, one should never pretend to be what one is not.