Aesop's tales # 27
- The Fox and the Cat
A Fox was
boasting to a Cat of its clever devices for escaping its enemies. "I have
a whole bag of tricks," he said, "which contains a hundred ways of
escaping my enemies."
"I have
only one," said the Cat; "but I can generally manage with that."
Just at that moment they heard the cry of a pack of hounds coming towards them,
and the Cat immediately scampered up a tree and hid herself in the boughs.
"This is my plan," said the Cat. "What are you going to
do?" The Fox thought first of one way,
then of
another, and while he was debating the hounds came nearer and nearer, and at
last the Fox in his confusion was caught up by the hounds and soon killed by
the huntsmen. Miss Puss, who had been looking on, said:
"Better one
safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon."
Moral: One sure plan is better than a hundred options.
