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お腹を空かせたキツネはぶどうに手が届かない。ゆっくりとしたカメが速いウサギと競争する。小さなヤギがオオカミを屋根からだます。賢いキツネ、愚かな動物、そして良い助言に関する短い物語を十二篇。どの話も最後に教訓がついている。
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A fox is very hungry. She walks and walks, but she cannot find any food. Then she sees some beautiful black grapes. They are hanging from a vine, high above her head.
"Mmm, those grapes look sweet," she thinks. "I want them!"
She jumps, but she cannot reach them. She jumps again, higher, but she still cannot reach them. She tries and tries until she is very tired.
At last she stops and walks away. She does not want anyone to know that she is sad. "Those grapes are not sweet at all," she says. "They are sour. I don't want them."
Lesson: It is easy to say that you don't want something when you can't have it.
A crow finds a piece of meat. She flies up into a tree and sits on a branch with the meat in her beak.
A fox walks past and sees her. "I want that meat," he thinks. So he stops under the tree and looks up.