The Fox and the Dog

Once  there  lived  a  clever  fox.  One  day  he  boasted  to  a  dog  of  his  cleverness  for  escaping  his  enemies.  I  have  a  whole  bag  of  tricks,  he  said,  which  contains  a  hundred  ways  of  escaping  my  enemies.  The  dog  did  not  come  in  his  tricks  and  said,  I  have  only  one,  but  I  can  generally  manage  with  that.  Suddenly  they  heard  a  roar  of  the  lions.  They  heard  it  carefully  and  seemed  that  they  were  coming  towards  them.  The  dog  immediately  scampered  up  a  tree  and  hid  himself  in  the  branches.  The  dog  said,  this  is  my  plan.  What  are  you  going  to  do?  The  fox  thought  first  of  one  way,  then  of  another,  and  while  he  was  debating,  the  lions  came  nearer  and  nearer.  At  last  the  fox,  in  his  confusion,  was  caught  up  by  the  lions  and  killed.