The Fox and the Cock Aesop’s Fables

One day in summer, a fox saw a cock near a village. It was time for dinner, and the fox decided to eat the cock. He went up to the cock and said to him, “Your father could sing very well. Can you sing well too?” The cock shut his eyes and began to sing. The fox caught the cock in his mouth and ran away.

A farmer saw the fox and cried out to the other farmers, “Look! A fox has caught our cock! Look! Look! That is our cock.” The cock heard the farmer and said to the fox, “Do you hear what that farmer is saying? He says that I am their cock. Tell them that I am your cock now.” When the fox opened his mouth to say it, the cock jumped up into a tree. He cried out to the fox, “I am not your cock, I am their cock.” The poor fox beat his head on the tree and said, “Mouth, you talk too much and we have no dinner today.”