The Greedy Fox

#####The Greedy Fox

One fine day a fox found a store of

food left by some farmers inside a hollow tree.

Making himself as small as he could, he squeezed through the narrow gap, so that the other animals would not be able to see him gobbling up the lovely food.

The fox ate, and ate, and ate … and then he ate some more. He had never eaten so much food in his life!

But when he had finished it all and tried to climb out of the tree he just could not move.

He was too big to get through the hole! Of course, the greedy fox did not realise he had eaten too much—he thought the tree had got smaller!

He poked his head through the gap and yelled, “Help! Help! Get me out of this horrible hole.

Just then a weasel shuffled past the tree. “Hey, weasel, help me out! This tree is shrinking. It’s crushing me to death!”

“Oh, I don’t think so,” laughed the little weasel. “The tree looks about the same size as when I came past this morning. Perhaps you’ve got bigger.”

“Stop talking nonsense and get me out!” shouted the fox. “I’m dying I tell you.”

“Well, it serves you right for eating too much. The trouble with you is that your eyes are bigger than your stomach.

You’ll just have to stay there until you get thinner … then you can clamber out. And perhaps next time you won’t be so greedy.”

So the fox had to stay in his miserable hole for two days and two long nights. But he never ever ate too much food again.