A fox was once
caught in a trap. It was only after a tough struggle that she could
get free. But, to her sorrow, her
beautiful tail had been cut off and left
in the trap.
"How ugly I shall look!" moaned the fox, " won't the other
foxes laugh at me ?"
Thinking hard, the fox hit upon a plan to save
herself from being laughed at.
She called a meeting of his
friends and said, "Brothers! have you ever wondered why after
all, we carry these long tails?" Let us cut them off and be free from their
nuisance."
But the other foxes had noticed her cut-off tail. They laughed
aloud and replied, "You used to say that tails looked very fine when your own
was all right. Now that you have lost yours, you want us to lose ours too."
