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 Lesson: ‘Better one safe way than a hundred on which you
cannot reckon.’
―
Aesop
