Picture: 31

Location: At the river bank.

Characters: A salt merchant and a donkey.

Item: water, mountains, birdge and salt sacks.

Action: A donkey pretending to slip.

* The donkey kept slipping into the river repeatedly.

* The donkey’s repeated slips into the river raised suspicion in the merchant’s mind.

Picture: 32

Location: At the river bank.

Characters: A salt merchant and a donkey.

Item: water, mountains, birdge and salt sacks.

Action: The merchant observing a donkey that fell in to the water.

* One day, the merchant decided to closely watch the donkey’s actions.

* To his surprise, he noticed that the donkey purposely fell into the water.

Picture: 33

Location: At the river bank.

Characters: A salt merchant and a donkey.

Item: water, mountains, birdge and salt sacks.

Action: The donkey fell in to the water again and again.

* The merchant got angry but stayed silent.

* Instead, he came up with a plan to give the donkey a valuable lesson.

Picture: 34

Location: At the merchant’s house.

Characters: A salt merchant and a donkey.

Item: House, trees and salt sacks.

Action: A merchant loading sacks on a donkey.

* The next day, the merchant loaded the donkey with sacks of cotton instead of salt.