A Dog and a Cock, who were the best of friends, wished very much to see something of the world. What is it you see? ,asked the Fox a little anxiously. Why did you put it there?, Why did you not keep it in the house where you could easily get it when you had to buy things? As a rule Mr. Wolf snapped up such delicious morsels without making any bones about it, but this Lamb looked so very helpless and innocent that the Wolf felt he ought to have some kind of an excuse for taking its life. First he whirled round and round like a top, then he hopped up and down, cutting all sorts of strange capers. But none got there earlier than Mother Monkey. At the ford the Ass again tumbled over; but when he had scrambled to his feet, it was a very disconsolate Ass that dragged himself homeward under a load ten times heavier than before.
The true leader proves himself by his qualities.