A fisherman was returning home after a day by the river with his cart full of eels. Reynard the fox saw him and immediately thought of a way of getting himself a sumptuous dinner. He lay down in the middle of the road and pretended to be dead.
When the fisherman saw him, he fell for the trick. He picked up the fox, convinced that he had found himself a beautiful fox skin, on the move, Reynard emptied all the eels out into the road, gathered them up and ran off. So the gullible fisherman lost both his fox fur skin and his fish.
Moral : Simple people are often deceived.
Words Meanings
sumptuous very expensive and looking very impressive
pretend to behave in a particular way, in order to make other people believe something that is not true
convinced completely sure about something
gather to bring things together that have been spread around
gullible innocent and simple
fur the soft thick mass of hair that grows on the body of some animals
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