FOX was boasting to a Cat of its 

 clever devices for escaping its 

 enemies. " I have a whole bag 

 of tricks," he said, "which con- 

 tains a hundred ways of escaping my enemies.' 

 " I have only one," said the Cat ; " but I 

 can generally manage with that/ Just at 

 that moment they heard the cry of a pack of 

 hounds coming towards them, and the Cat 

 immediately scampered up a tree and hid 

 herself in the boughs. " This is my plan," 

 said the Cat. " What are you going to do ? : 

 The Fox thought first of one way, then of 

 another, and while he was debating the hounds 

 came nearer and nearer, and at last the Fox 

 in his confusion was caught up by the hounds 



