he \Bolf and the fOox.

WOLF once made friends with a fox, and kept him always by
him, so that whatever the wolf wanted the fox was obliged
to do, because he was the weakest, and could not, therefore,
be master. It happened, one day, that they were both
passing through a wood, and the wolf said: “Red fox, find
me something to eat or I shall eat you.”

“Well,” replied the fox, ‘I know a farm-yard near, in
which there are two young lambs; if you like I will go and
fetch one.” The wolf was quite agreeable, so the fox went
to the field, stole the lamb, and brought it to the wolf. He
then returned to find something for himself.

The wolf soon ate up the lamb but he was not satisfied, and began to long
so much for the other lamb that he went to fetch it himself. But he managed
so awkwardly that the mother of the lamb saw him, and began to cry and
bleat fearfully; and the farmer came running out to see what was the matter.
The wolf got so terribly beaten that he ran limping and howling back to the
fox. ‘You have led me into a pretty mess,” he said. ‘I wanted the other
lamb, and because I went to fetch it the farmer has nearly killled me.”

«Why are you such a glutton, then?” replied the fox.

Another day, as they were ina field, the greedy wolf exclaimed: “Red
fox, if you don’t find me something to eat, I shall eat you up.”

“Oh! Ican get you some pancakes, if you like,” he said, “for I know a
farm-house where the wife is frying them now.’

So they went on together and the fox sneaked into the house, sniffed, and
smelt about for some time, till he at last found out where the dish stood. Then
he dragged six pancakes from it, and brought them to the wolf.

“Now you have something to eat,” said the fox, and went away to find his
own dinner.

The wolf, however, swallowed the pancakes in the twinkling of an eye, and
said to himself: ‘They taste so good I.must have some more,” So he went
into the farm-kitchen and, while pulling down the pancakes, upset the dish, and
broke it in pieces.

The farmer’s wife Heard the crash and came rushing in, ha when she saw
the wolf she called loudly for the farm servants, who came rushing in and beat
him with whatever they could lay their hands on, so that he ran back to the fox
in the wood with two lame legs, howling terribly.