In the beautiful forest, the rooster lived in happiness and joy, and living near him was a cunning fox living in a burrow. One day the cunning fox looked at the rooster and kept thinking of a trick to be able to catch that large rooster.
The rooster, standing on the tree, felt strange movements and suspicious sounds coming from behind the tree, and he felt that some danger was approaching him. So the rooster made a big jump and stood on a high branch of the tree, and the cunning fox appeared.
The cunning fox greeted the beautiful rooster and told him that all the animals in the forest were talking about his beautiful voice and his beautiful crowing. The fox asked the rooster to come down from the top of the tree and stand beside him, so that he could hear him clearly and enjoy his voice.
But the rooster was clever and knew the intention of the cunning fox. How could he trust himself with that lying cunning fox? The fox tried to convince the rooster to come down from the top of the tree. He thought of another trick and told the clever rooster that the great lion, king of the forest, had made a new law for the forest.
That law removes enmity between all the animals of the forest, so the wolf became the friend of the gazelle, the cat the friend of the mouse, the fox the friend of the rooster, and so the fox kept lying and lying to the clever rooster. But the rooster had not heard of that law and did not believe the fox.
But to make sure of the cunning fox’s statement, the clever rooster asked him to go first to his enemy the dog to see how they had become friends. The rooster told him: If I see you playing with the dog, I will know the truth of that law and will come down to play with you.
The rooster found that there was no escape from going to the dog to complete executing his plan, so he went to the dog and hid a little behind his house. He decided to go after that and claim that he was playing with his friend the dog. The dog did not feel the presence of the fox because he was sleeping. After a while, the cunning fox turned back to the rooster. The dog felt a movement around him and found the fox.
He pounced on him, seizing his neck. The lying fox kept calling for help. The clever rooster laughed, knowing the fox’s lie and his claim of that law to be able to catch him. Thus the cunning fox received the reward of his lie, and the dog struck him strongly. The fox learned that truth saves and lying destroys.