A FOX IN THE CART
Added on: 18th Sep 2015
A fox, observing a fish cart coming,
lay down and pretended to be dead.
The cart man, tempted by the idea of
making some money by selling the fox's fur,
picked up the animal by its tail and flung
it into the back of the cart among the fish.
Then he resumed his journey.
The fox ate his fill of the fish and
jumped out of the cart.
A wolf saw him jumping out and asked him
what he had been doing in it.
The fox told him and also how he
had got into it in the first place.
The wolf ran ahead of the cart and
lay down in its path, pretending to be dead.
The cart man was delighted to find
another animal to sell,
but he found the animal too heavy to lift.
So he pushed it into a sack,
tied the sack to his cart and dragged it away.
Moral of this story:
What works for one may not work for another.
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