Chapter 201
A lean and hungry mouse had made his way into a basket of corn with some difficulty. He found the fare so good, and he stuffed himself with such a voracious appetite that, when he wanted to get out of the basket, he found the hole too small to allow his bloated body to pass through, push as hard as he might. As he sat at the hole groaning about his fate, a weasel, who had amused himself by watching the vain struggles of the fat little thing, called and offered the following advice: “Listen to me, my plump friend. There is only one way to get out, and that’s to wait until you’re just as lean and hungry as you were when you entered.”
Avarice traps the mice.
