LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP

LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP

Once upon a time a fox became very thirsty and went here and there in search of water. At lost he reached to an old well in a field. He leapt in and drank to his heart's content. Now when his thirst was gone he tried to get out, but he could not climb up. He cursed himself for his carelessness. He had stayed there for sometime when he saw a goat at the top of the well. She too had come for drink. She peeped into the well and saw the fox. "Friend, may I get a drink from the well here?" the goat said to the fox. Of course, you can jump down and drink your fill," the fox said to the goat. At this, the goat jumped into the water to quench her thirst. As soon as she was in the well, the fox put his feet on the horns of the goat and got out of the well. "Friend goat," said the fox, "If you had brain, in your head, you would not have leapt down into the well to have a drink, when you do not know the way out of it?" The goat realized her mistake, and requested the fox to help her, but the fox laughed and said, "Go on bleating till your master comes to help you." So saying, he ran away to the forest.4essay.blogspot.com