Aesop's Fables. Translated by Rev. George Fyler Townsend. 1860.

A Shepherd, watching his Donkey feeding in a meadow, was alarmed all of a sudden by the cries of the enemy. He appealed to the Donkey to fly with him, lest they should both be captured, but the animal lazily replied, "Why should I, pray? Do you think it likely the conqueror will place on me two sets of panniers?"

"No," rejoined the Shepherd.

"Then," said the Donkey, "as long as I carry the panniers, what matters it to me whom I serve?"

In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master.