The foolish fox

One fine day a fox was out walking .

By and by he came to a fence . He looked through the fence and saw some ripe grapes .

"I shall have grapes for my supper , he said .

"I will come back and get them when everyone is asleep ."

The fox came back at night , but he could not get the grapes .

They were on the other side of the fence .

He could not crawl through the fence .

He tried and tried , but at last he had to give it up .

Then he said , "I am so tired that i can not go home now .

i will sleep for a little while ."

The fox went to sleep and dreamed that he was very thin .

He dreamed that he crawled through the fence .

When he waked up ,he said , " i will go home and grow thin .

i will not eat anything .

Then i shall grow so thin that i can crawl through the fence ."

The fox did not eat anything for three days .

He grew very thin , But he grew very hungry , too . He went back and crawled through the fence .

Then he ate all the grapes that he wanted .

He ate so many that he grew very fat .

The fox was so fat that he could not crawl through the fence to go home .

The fox was so fat that he could not crawl through the fence to go home .

"How foolish i have been !" he said .

"Now i must grow thin again . i can not eat anything .

oh , where can i hide while i am growing thin ?

i will hide under the grape vines in the corner ."

The fox hid under the grape vines for three days .

He did not eat anything , and he grew very thin .

Then he crawled through the fence and went home .

"I will never be so foolish again ," he said .