3. The sick lion

A Lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice. He returned to his den, and lying down there, pretended to be sick, taking care that his sickness should be publicly known. The beasts expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, where the Lion devoured them. After many of the beasts had thus disappeared, the Fox discovered the trick and presenting himself to the Lion, stood on the outside of the cave, at a respectful distance, and asked him how he was. "I am very middling," replied the Lion, "but why do you stand without? Pray enter within to talk with me." "No, thank you," said the Fox. "I notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but I see no trace of any returning."



He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.

5. THE FOX AND THE GRAPES

If you try hard enough, you may soon find an answer to your problem..

It was a sunny day and fox was walking across the fields. Soon he came to a vineyard. As he came nearer, he could see some bunches of juicy grapes.

The fox looked carefully around him. He had to make sure that he was safe from the hunters. He decided to steal some before anyone came along.

He jumped upwards but he could not reach the grapes. He jumpedagain as high as he could. He still could not reach them. The grapes were just too high for him.

He was not ready to give up. He backed off, took some running stepsand leapt into the air towards the grapes. Again he failed to reach them.
It was getting dark, and he was getting angry. His legs hurt with allthat running and jumping. At last he stopped trying.


As he walked away, he said to himself, “I don’t really want thosegrapes. I’m sure they are too sour to eat.”

1. Sometimes when we cannot get what we want, we pretend that it is not worth having.
   
2. The most important part of you will always be what’s on the inside.
   
3. What matters in this life is helping others win, even if itmeans slowing down and changing our course.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

4. The wolf and the lamb

A lamb was grazing with a flock of sheep one day.
She soon foundsome sweet grass at the edge of the field. Farther and farther she went,away from the others.

She was enjoying herself so much that she did not notice a wolf coming nearer to her.
However, when it pounced on her, she was quick to start pleading,
“Please, please don’t eat me yet. My stomach is full of grass. If you wait a while,
I will taste much

better.”

The wolf thought that was a good idea, so he sat down and waited. After a while, the lamb said,
“If you allow me to dance, the grass in my stomach will be digested faster.”
Again the wolf agreed.

While the lamb was dancing, she had a new idea. She said,“Please take the bell from around my neck.
If you ring it as hard as youcan, I will be able to dance even faster."

The wolf took the bell and rang it as hard as he could.
The shepherd heard the bell ringing andquickly sent his dogs to find the missing lamb.
The barking dogs frightened the wolf away andsaved the lamb’s life.

The values:

• gentle
  
• weak
  
• sometimes can be cleverer than fierce
  
• strong..
  

2. The boy who cried to wolf

Once there was a shepherd boy who had to look after a flock of sheep.
One day, he felt bored and decided to play a trick on the villagers. He shouted,
“Help! Wolf! Wolf!”

The villagers heard his cries and rushed out of the village to helpthe shepherd boy.
When they reached him, they asked,“Where is the wolf?”

The shepherd boy laughed loudly, “Ha, Ha, Ha! I fooled all of you.
I was only playing a trick on you.”

A few days later, the shepherd boy played this trick again.

Again he cried, “Help! Help! Wolf! Wolf!” Again, the villagers rushed up the hill to help him and again they found that boy had tricked them.
They were very angry with him for being so naughty.

Then, some time later, a wolf went into the field. The wolf attacked one sheep, and then anotherand another. The shepherd boy ran towards the village shouting,
“Help! Help! Wolf! Help!Somebody!”

The villagers heard his cries but they laughed because they thought it was another trick. The boy ran to the nearest villager and said,
“A wolf is attacking the sheep. I lied before, but this time it istrue!”

Finally, the villagers went to look. It was true. They could see the wolf running away and many dead sheep lying on the grass.


The values of this story is We may not believe someone who often tells lies, even when he tells the truth.

1. Chanticleer and the fox

The story is about a rooster, named Chanticleer, who lives on the modest farm of a widow  and her daughters.
Chanticleer is a beautiful bird and he struts around among 7 hens.
One day he dreams that his coop is in danger but when he talks with one of the hens his fears go away.
However his dream was a precognition of the danger that would be coming. A fox was laying in wait.
One day the fox says to Chanticleer that he has a beautiful voice and wishes for the rooster to sing to him.
Chanticleer stands tall, stretches his neck and closes to eyes to sing when the fox grabs him by the neck and carries him off to his den.
This causes a big commotion, the cows, the sheep, the pigs, all the hens, the daughters and the widow run after the fox.
Even the geese and the bees get upset. As he is being carried off Chanticleer speaks to the fox begging to be let go and when the fox opens his mouth and responds
Chanticleer breaks free of his grip and flies up in a tree.
The rooster tells the fox that he will neveragain be tricked by flattery and the fox
responds that he should not have been so vain to let it ever happen.
However the fox has lost and he goes back in the forest and Chanticleer returns happily to his home to end the story.
I like this tale, because it is a fable. There are animals in it who speak and act like humans.
And there is a moral to the story that is made very clear at the end.
But it does have a happy ending, so the story itself is positive all around.
The illustrations won this book the Caldecott Medal in 1959 and it is not hard to see why.
There is a lot of attention to detail seen in every page. Chanticleer is indeed a beautiful specimen.
His tail feathers flow behind him as he walks and Cooney does an excellent job of showing his splendor.
illustrations are done only in a few colors though: red, orange, blue, green, and yellow. And there are only one shade of each.
Most illustrations use all the colors but some pictures have only one color in addition to black.
However, all of them are great and show the scenes well.
And the little things, like cows on a hillside in the background when the widow and daughters run off to chase the fox,
make the difference and show the effort put into the illustrations.
And I have values about this story , the values are

• the virtue of pointing out the folly of listening to
  flattery as well as the value of quick thinking on Chanticleer's part in a perilous situation.
  
• not greedy our self
  
• and we should think carefully before we do something.