A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): a Fox who lost his tail in a trap makes a grand speech telling every Fox to cut off his tail, until an old Fox asks him to turn around and the whole meeting hoots with laughter.
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Once there was a Fox who had no tail. He had lost it getting out of a trap. He did not want anyone to see.
The other Foxes all had fine, bushy tails. “If they see me, they will laugh,” he thought. So he hid, day after day.
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