<h5 id="id00911">THE THIEF AND THE FOX</h5>
<p id="id00912">By Ramaswarni Raju</p>
<p id="id00913">A MAN tied his horse to a tree and went into an inn. A Thief hid the
horse in a wood, and stood near the tree as if he had not done it.</p>
<p id="id00914">"Did you see my horse?" said the man.</p>
<p id="id00915">"Yes," said the Thief, "I saw the tree eat up your horse.''</p>
<p id="id00916">"How could the tree eat up my horse?" said the man.</p>
<p id="id00917">"Why it did so," said the Thief.</p>
<p id="id00918">The two went to a Fox and told him of the case. The Fox said. "I am
dull. All last night the sea was on fire; I had to throw a great deal
of hay into it to quench the flames; so come to-morrow, and I shall
hear your case.</p>
<p id="id00919">"Oh, you lie," said the Thief. "How could the sea burn? How could hay
quench the flames?"</p>
<p id="id00920">"Oh, you lie," said the Fox, with a loud laugh; "how could a tree eat
up a horse?"</p>
<p id="id00921">The Thief saw his lie had no legs, and gave the man his horse.</p>
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