One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. the animal cried piteously for hours as thefarmer tried to figure out what to do.
Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; itjust wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. they all grabbed a shovel and beganto shovel dirt into the well.
At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly.
Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down. a few shovel toads later the farmerfinally looked down the well.
He was astonished at what he saw.with each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkeywas doing something amazing.
He would shake it off and take a step up.
As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake itoff and take a step up.