The rooster went out with its chicks to search for food. The chicks were吵ing a lot because they were hungry and thirsty. The rooster stood among its chicks and said, “O my children, do not go far away from me, lest you be exposed to danger. For the fox may be stranger here, or may be hunting us.” So the fox was following the rooster and its chicks. The cunning fox was hiding under a tall tree, watching and not moving. But he was not able to deceive the chicks because of the rooster’s crowing that was warning its chicks from time to time.
The fox remained hiding, looking at the wonderful scene. While the rooster and its chicks were searching for food, they were pecking the earth with their beaks. Suddenly, one of the sisters lost her brother and her father without noticing. The fox and its sisters were wandering, looking here and there, until the fox deceived the small sister from the tree where the cunning fox was hiding its chicks. The fox jumped on it and took the small one with its claws, and the fox ran away with it and the chicks remained looking at the feathers scattered on the ground.
And the fox was remaining in its place, and when the rooster and its chicks returned from searching for food without it, the chicks cried in a loud voice, “O father, O father. But the fox that had deceived its brother and its father, the small one cried until the rooster heard its chicks’ voice and ran quickly around the voice’s origin, and the fox was rolling on its back and laughing with its mouth wide open. And there was nothing in front of the fox except the bird, and it fled before the rooster could cry and the chicks were looking at each other in astonishment between their father and the fox’s betrayal.
And when the rooster and its chicks woke up, the small birds thanked them, saying, “Thank you, O father. But the fox that deceived my brother and my father, they warned me, saying, ‘Do not approach my father, O my brother, after today, and do not approach my brother, and I will be more attentive, and I will look at the road so that I am not exposed to danger another time…’”