<P> Jean de la Fontaine contributed to the story's continuing popularity by making it the subject of one of his fables (Le loup et le chien, I. 5). In modern times the text has been set for piano and high voice by the French composer Isabelle Aboulker . </P> <P> A fragmentary proverbial saying attributed to Ahiqar occurs in an Aramaic document dating from the 6th century BCE: A man one day said to the onager (wild ass), "Let me ride upon thee, and I will maintain thee ..." Said the wild ass, "Keep thy maintenance and thy fodder and let me not see thy riding ." Since the onager is an Asian animal, it suggests that this region may have been the origin of the alternative fable recorded as 183 in the Perry Index . In this the wild ass at first congratulates a grazing pack - animal's sleek condition but eventually is grateful for his own freedom after seeing the other being driven along beneath a load . A later' Christianised' version is now numbered as the independent fable 411 in the Perry Index . There the onager jeers at a donkey, only to be eaten by a lion since it is not guarded by a human . </P>

Where was the wolf and the dog written