Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Dogs and the Fox

by Aesop

THE DOGS AND THE FOX

SOME Dogs once found a lion’s skin, and were worrying it with their teeth. Just then a Fox came by, and said, “You think yourselves very brave, no doubt; but if that were a live lion you’d find his claws a good deal sharper than your teeth.”