Z American English Informal

A Traveler had hired a donkey to carry him to a distant part of the country. The owner of the Donkey went with the Traveler, walking beside him to drive the Donkey and point out the way.
The road led across a treeless plain where the Sun beat down fiercely. So intense did the heat become, that the Traveler at last decided to stop for a rest, and as there was no other shade to be found, the Traveler sat down in the shadow of the Donkey.
Now the heat had affected the Driver as much as it had the Traveler, and even more, for he had been walking. Wishing also to rest in the shade cast by the Donkey, he began to quarrel with the Traveler, saying he had hired the Donkey and not the shadow it cast.
The two soon came to blows, and while they were fighting, the Donkey took to its heels.

Moral:
In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.

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A Traveler had hired a donkey to carry him to a distant part of the country. The owner of the Donkey went with the Traveler, walking beside him to drive the Donkey and point out the way.
The road led across a treeless plain where the Sun beat down fiercely. So intense did the heat become, that the Traveler at last decided to stop for a rest, and as there was no other shade to be found, the Traveler sat down in the shadow of the Donkey.
Now the heat had affected the Driver as much as it had the Traveler, and even more, for he had been walking. Wishing also to rest in the shade cast by the Donkey, he began to quarrel with the Traveler, saying he had hired the Donkey and not the shadow it cast.
The two soon came to blows, and while they were fighting, the Donkey took to its heels.

Moral:
In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.

BY Z American English Informal