Once upon a time a Cat and a Monkey lived as pets in the same house. Why, I am only a Bird! They soon made him feel so ridiculous that he dropped the basket and seized a large piece of roast meat intended for his master's dinner. The Farmer, of course, knew the Cranes and their ways. He visited the hen house very often and at last got so greedy that he would swallow the eggs whole. The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out. When he saw how the Dog was acting, he seized a stick and drove him out of the stable with many a blow for his selfish behavior.
The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit.