Aesop's Fables

A Dog and a Rooster, being great friends, agreed to travel together. At nightfall they took shelter in a thick wood. The Rooster flew up and perched on the branches of a tree, while the Dog found a bed below in the hollow trunk. When morning dawned, the Rooster, as usual, crowed very loudly several times. A Fox heard the sound and, wishing to make a breakfast of him, came and stood under the branches, saying how earnestly he desired to make the acquaintance of the owner of so magnificent a voice. The Rooster, suspicious of his polite words, said, “Sir, I wish you would do me the favor of going around to the hollow trunk below me and waking my doorkeeper, so that he may open the door and let you in.” When the Fox approached the tree, the Dog sprang out, caught him, and tore him to pieces.