THE GREEDY FOX
One fine
day a fox found a store of food left by some farmers inside a hollow tree. Making
himself as small as he could, he squeezed through a narrow gap, so that the
other animals would not be able to see him gobbling up the lovely food.
The fox
ate, and ate, and ate … and then he ate some more. He had never eaten so much
food in his life! But when he had finished it all and tried to climb out of the
tree he just could not move. He was too big to get through the hole! Of course,
the greedy fox did not realize he had eaten too much – he thought the tree had
got smaller! He poked his head through the gap and yelled, “Help! Help! Get me
out of this horrible hole.”
Just then
a weasel shuffled past the tree. “Hey, weasel, help me out! This tree is
shrinking. It is crushing me to death!”
“Oh, I
don’t thonk so, ‘laughed the little weasel. “The tree looks about the same size
as when I came past this morning. Perhaps you have got bigger.”
“Stop
talking nonsense and get me out!” shouted the fox. “I am dying, I tell you.”
“Well,
it serves you right for eating too much. The trouble with you us that your eyes
are bigger than your stomach. You will have just to stay there until you get
thinner …. Then can clamber out. And perhaps next time you won’t be so greedy.”
So the
fox had to stay in his miserable hole for two days and two long nights. But he
never ever ate too much food again.
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