CAT AND FOX.
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A Fable.
A CAT once met a fox in a forest. The fox bragged so much about the many tricks he could do that the cat felt she must, in some way, reply.
Finally, she said, very modestly: “Well, I only know how to do one thing. It’s my only trick.”
“You don’t say so!” replied the fox, patronizingly. “Why, I can do no end of tricks.”
The cat stared at the fox, enviously, and was suddenly aroused by hearing the horns of the king’s hunters and the barking of the dogs. The cat ran up the tree and, sitting on a branch, watched the approach of the cavalcade, with serenity.
“I thought you could do only one thing,” cried out the distracted fox as he ran away.
“I can,” the cat answered. “But this happens to be my trick.”
Then the cat had the satisfaction to see the dogs, after barking about the foot of the tree, run after the fox.