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The Cat and the Fox are cunning. I do not know

which of the two îs the more cunnîng. The Fox had one hundred tricks in his bag, the Cat had only one, but it was a good trick, that saved him in the moment of danger. You know that he elimbed a tree, while the fox did not know where to run with his hundred tricks.

4. One^day, when his Majesty the Lion was sick, ail the physicians of his kingdom came in haste (accoururent), except the Fox, who remained at home (chez lui). .. The Wolf, his enemy, aécused him of indifférence. — Was the Fox punished by the king.^ — No, George, he pleaded his cause well, gained it, and turned the irritation of the Lion against the Wolf.

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