The cat heard it, gave chase to the fox, rescued the cock, brought him home, scolded him well, and said:
“Now keep out of her jaws in the future if you don’t want to be killed altogether!”
Then the cat went out foraging for wheat, so that the cock might have something to eat. He had scarcely gone when the sly she-fox again came creeping up.
“Dear little cock!” said she, “pray open the door!”
“Nay, little fox! Pussy said I wasn’t to.”
But the fox went on asking and asking till at last the cock let him in, when the fox rushed at him, seized him by the neck, and ran off with him. Then the cock cried out:
“Help! pussy-pussy!
That foxy hussy
Has got me tight
With all her might.