Once, a cock lived in a small hut. He had a fox and his mother as his neighbours. The fox was very lazy and did not hunt much. One day, the fox told his mother, “Boil some water. I am going to kill the cock. We will have him for dinner.” So, the fox went to the cock’s house. He was not there, so the fox hid himself in his hut. When the cock walked in, the fox pounced upon him and put him in a sack. As the fox was carrying the sack home, the cock opened the sack. He put a big stone inside the sack and escaped. When the fox emptied the sack in the water, the boiling water splashed onto both his and his mother’s faces. They became blind. The cock lived peacefully after that.
The Cock and the Fox
