Folk Tale
The Farmer and the Fox
Title | The Farmer and the Fox |
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Original Title | Ἄνθρωπος καὶ ἀλώπηξ. |
Original Author | Αἴσωπος |
Original ID | trans-4772.xml |
Language code | eng |
A wicked farmer envied his neighbour's abundant crops. In order to destroy the fruits of that man's labour, he caught a fox, attached a blazing fire-brand to her tail and then let the fox loose in his neighbour's crops. The fox, however, did not go where she was sent. Instead, as fate decreed, she set fire to the crops of the man who had let her loose.
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