FREE Printable!
Download 147 FREE Aesop’s Fables!
Click to get your Aesop’s Fables for FREE!
Disclosure: This page may contain affiliate links. When you click a link and purchase an item, we may earn a commission at no cost to you. Read our full disclosure here.
AESOP’S FABLES
THE FOX AND THE COCK
A Fox was caught in a trap one fine morning, because he had got too near the Farmer’s hen house. No doubt he was hungry, but that was not an excuse for stealing. A Cock, rising early, discovered what had happened. He knew the Fox could not get at him, so he went a little closer to get a good look at his enemy.
The Fox saw a slender chance of escape.
“Dear friend,” he said, “I was just on my way to visit a sick relative, when I stumbled into this string and got all tangled up. But please do not tell anybody about it. I dislike causing sorrow to anybody, and I am sure I can soon gnaw this string to pieces.”
But the Cock was not to be so easily fooled. He soon roused the whole hen yard, and when the Farmer came running out, that was the end of Mr. Fox.
The wicked deserve no aid.
Books to LOVE:
Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm.
“He who is too well off is always longing for something new.”
– Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Grimms’ Fairy Tales)
“The true poet is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set. The false poet travels abroad in strange countries and hopes to be uplifted by the mountains of Switzerland, the sky and sea of Italy. He comes to them and is dissatisfied. He is not as happy as the man who stays at home and sees the apple trees flower in spring, and hears the small birds singing among the branches.”
– Jacob Grimm
You can
BUY Grimms’ Fairy Tales book here
READ Grimms’ Fairy Tales for FREE here
LISTEN to Grimms’ Fairy Tales for FREE here
Resources to LOVE:
FREEBIES – FREE Printable Curriculum!
NightZooKeeper.com – Makes Reading & Writing Fun!
CTCMath.com – BEST online Math Curriculum!