Fable
The Cat & The Fox
Once a Cat and a Fox were traveling together.
As they went along, picking up provisions on the way—a stray mouse here, a fat
chicken there—they began an argument to while away the time between bites. And,
as usually happens when comrades argue, the talk began to get personal.
"You
think you are extremely clever, don't you?" said the Fox. "Do you
pretend to know more than I? Why, I know a whole sack full of tricks!"
"Well,"
retorted the Cat, "I admit I know one trick only, but that one, let me
tell you, is worth a thousand of yours!"
Just
then, close by, they heard a hunter's horn and the yelping of a pack of hounds.
In an instant the Cat was up a tree, hiding among the leaves.
"This
is my trick," he called to the Fox. "Now let me see what yours are
worth."
But
the Fox had so many plans for escape he could not decide which one to try
first. He dodged here and there with the hounds at his heels. He doubled on his
tracks, he ran at top speed, he entered a dozen burrows, but all in vain. The
hounds caught him, and soon put an end to the boaster and all his tricks.
Moral
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Common sense is always worth more than cunning.
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