"Yes, so I am; now, is not that a pretty trade?"
THE WOLF AND THE FOX
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WOLF, once upon a time, caught a fox. It happened one day that they were both going through the forest, and the wolf said to his companion: "Get me some food, or I will eat you up."
The fox replied: "I know a farmyard where there are a couple of young lambs, which, if you wish, we will fetch."
This proposal pleased the wolf, so they went, and the fox, stealing first one of the lambs, brought it to the wolf, and then ran away. The wolf devoured it quickly, but was not contented, and went to fetch the other lamb by himself, but he did it so awkwardly that he aroused the attention of the mother, who began to cry and bleat loudly, so that the peasants ran up. There they found the wolf, and beat him so unmercifully that he ran, howling and limping, to the fox, and said: "You have led me to a nice place, for, when I went to fetch the other lamb, the peasants came and beat me terribly!"
"Why are you such a glutton, then?" asked the fox.
The next day they went again into the fields, and the covetous wolf said to the fox: "Get me something to eat now, or I will devour you!"