“How could you serve me such a dirty trick?” he said. ‘‘The farmer
nearly caught me, and he has given me such a thrashing!”

“Well, then,” replied the fox, “‘you should not be such a glutton.”

' Another day, when the wolf and fox were out together, and the wolf
was limping with fatigue, he said: ‘Red fox, find me something toeat, or I shall
eat you.”

' The fox replied: ‘(I know a man who has been slaughtering cattle to-day,
and there isa quantity of salted meat lying ina tubin the cellar. I can fetch
some of that.”

“No,” said the wolf, ‘‘let me go with you this time, You can help me if I
cannot run away fast enough.” .

«“ You may come for aught I care,” replied Reynard, and showed him on
the way many of his tricks, and at last they reached the cellar safely.

There was meat in abundance. The wolf made himself quite at home,
and said: “ There will be time to stop when I hear any sound.”

The fox also enjoyed himself, but he kept looking round now and then, and
ran often to the hole through which they had entered to try if it was still large
enough for his body to slip through.

“Dear fox,” said the wolf, ‘why are you running about and jumping here
and there so constantly.”

‘“‘T must see if any one is coming,” replied the cunning animal, ‘and I ad-
vise you not to eat too much.”

The wolf replied: “I am not going away from here until the tub is empty.”

At this moment in came the farmer, who had heard the fox jumping about
in the cellar. The fox no sooner saw him than with a spring he was through
the hole. The wolf made an attempt to follow him, but he had eaten so much,
and was so fat that he stuck fast. The farmer, on seeing this, fetched a cudgel
and killed him on the spot. The fox ran home to his den full of joy that he was

at last set free from the old glutton’s company.