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Thursday, 20 February 2014

The Fox and the Turtle

For want of a better meal, a starving fox captured a turtle, but then could not manage to break through the solid shell in order to eat it.
'You should try putting me in the water for a while to soften me up,' suggested the shred turtle.
This sounded like excellent advice to the fox. He carried his prey to the stream and immersed it in the current. The turtle, who was a superb swimmer, slid out of the fox's paws and re-emerged in the mid-stream laughing. There are animals who are even more cunning than you. Now you'll stay hungry!'

Moral : Wit and wisdom are weapons of the weak,

Words                         Meanings 

starve                 to suffer or die because you do not have enough                             food to eat
suggest               to put forward an idea or a plan for other people                             to think about
shrewd               clever at understanding and making judgements                               about a situation
carry                  to take somebody or something from one place to                             another
prey                   an animal, a bird etc, that is hunted, killed and                                eaten by another

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