A sturdy Bull was once driven by the heat of the weather to wade up to
his knees in a cool and swift-running stream. He had not been there
long when a Gnat that had been disporting itself in the air pitched
upon one of his horns.
"My dear fellow," said the Gnat, with as great a buzz as he could
manage, "pray excuse the liberty I take. If I am too heavy only say so
and I will go at once and rest upon the poplar which grows hard by the
edge of the stream.
"Stay or go, it makes no matter to me," replied the Bull. "Had it not
been for your buzz I should not even have known you were there."