Once, a fox lived in his cave with his wife and two little foxes. One day the fox family didn’t get anything to eat. The little foxes were crying with hunger. Mother fox was forced again and again to go in search of food. Suddenly father fox heard an approaching sledge. ‘Let me try out a trick,’ he thought. He then lay on the road, pretending to be dead. Soon a Laplander passed by and saw the fox. ‘Oh! I will take this dead fox to the market,’ decided the Laplander. He put the fox on his sledge.
After some time, the Laplander found the fox lying on the road again. ‘How is this possible? I had put him in my sledge. It must be bewitched. I will put it in the other sledge,’ thought the Laplander. He placed the fox in the sledge full of dead fish. The sly fox picked up a bagful of fish and slipped into the jungle. After some time the Laplander realised something was wrong, but it was too late. The fox had already taken his fish.
