Once, a fox was hurt by a thorn in his leg and he was crying in pain for help. Then an eagle heard his crying and went to him for help. From that day, they became close friends and decided to live close to each other. So the eagle built its nest on a tree while the fox lived in the bushes close by. One day, the fox went hunting. The eagle did not have anything to feed her eaglets. ‘I will get one fox cub,’ she thought and fed it to her young ones.
When the fox returned, she was heartbroken. “You cheated me,” she said in anger and sadness. Soon God punished the eagle. One day, the eagle picked up a piece of goat’s flesh, that the villagers had killed as a sacrifice, for her eaglets. She did not know that she was carrying a burning cinder along. The cinder set the nest on fire. The poor little eaglets got hurt. While the eagle cried, the fox said, “God has punished you for breaking a friend’s trust.
