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The Rooster and the Fox

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Aesop's Fable as told by Annie for your amusement and edification.

The Rooster and the Fox

One lovely evening in the garden just as the sun was setting the Rooster flew up to a high place to roost for the night. Suddenly a Fox elegant in his red fur coat walked boldly into the garden, and looking up greeted the Rooster. "Good evening dear Rooster, friend and comrade! Have you heard the good news this evening? All animals are at peace, and we have been directed to embrace, forgive our past sins, and live hence forth as one family! Come down dear brother, and allow me to hug you and proclaim my fidelity and allegiance to you. He sat down among the flowers, and smiled his most winning smile up at the Rooster on his perch.
The Rooster laughed, smiled down at the fox, and said:
Thank you for the kind invitation, but I think I will happily remain high up in this arbor of sheltering flowers. You have been known to dine on my hens and chicks, and are relentless in your pursuit of all those smaller and weaker than yourself. I prefer not to be dinner for one as wily as yourself. No matter what someone proclaims or wishes you cannot change your nature, and I prefer to live another day. I have a healthy certainty you will never stop eating chickens. Good night kind sir, and may the morning find me alive and well, and you still hungry searching for a meal.

Now Aesop is just confirming my favorite saying best loved reader! That is: "The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior." This is a lesson to live by. If someone cheats on you they will most likely always cheat, so leave them to their cheating ways, and go enjoy a faithful relationship. If some one screams and yells, and hits you...guess what they will continue to do this over and over again. Can we change...yes, but some one who has made a life time habit of eating chickens is not likely to change his eating habits. The only control you have is control over yourself, so don't put yourself in harms way just because someone is charming and a very proficient liar. Aesop is also counseling us to think and consider before we act. Don't leap to greet someone who has proclaimed himself to be your enemy through his actions your entire life. Stop and think, and by all means, laugh when someone proposes you consider ludicrous and outright stupid behavior.

Copyright: Anne E. Shoemaker-Magdaleno HouseofChabrier Chabrier 2013
All Rights Reserved

Painted in Watercolor, Sharpie, and Acrylic Gold Border
Image size
1466x2933px 1.67 MB
Make
PENTAX Corporation
Model
PENTAX Optio Z10
Shutter Speed
1/100 second
Aperture
F/3.5
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
64
Date Taken
Apr 19, 2013, 4:09:33 AM
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eves-art-mail's avatar
Such an elegant illustration of one of my own Aesop's Fables. Nicely done!