[Illustration: HERCULES AND THE CARTER.]
As a clownish Fellow was driving his cart along a deep miry lane, the
wheels stuck so fast in the clay, that the horses could not draw them
out. Upon this, he fell a bawling and praying to Hercules to come and
help him. Hercules, looking down from a cloud, bid him not lie there,
like an idle rascal as he was, but get up and whip his horses stoutly,
and clap his shoulder to the wheel; adding, that this was the only way
for him to obtain his assistance.