Once upon a time there lived a fox in a little mountain cave. One day it tore its face while trying to steal some food. When the wound healed it left a scar which made the fox’s visage look as if it was smiling and sound as if it was singing. The fox was sitting wearing its forced smile sighing with its sad song when a deer family passed by. The smiling face attracted their attention but the cautious mother deer herded her wards away. But one innocent little doe came back later to the fox’s cave. The fox smiled and sang for her for some time and then ate her up.
The smiling fox soon found that it did not need to hunt but just walk lazily near its cave smiling and singing. Many innocent animals were attracted and were merrily eaten. The fox got a bit bored having only little animals for lunch. He wanted the big ones too. He thought up a plan.
When the tiger was passing by dragging its prey, the fox called out, ‘Come O Lord, to this cave. It is your place. Please be gracious and have your meal here’.
Tigers are prone to depression as they don’t get opportunity to socialize nor do they have the Lion’s aura of royalty that gives some consolation. So when the fox called it with such an obviously cheerful face this tiger was pleasantly surprised. It came in and as it was having its meal the fox smiled and sang. The content tiger left the remaining portion of the prey there. As the fox escorted it out, it said very sweetly ‘please come again Lord and again and again, for this is your place, I am only your keeper’.
Soon the King Lion noticed that the animal count was decreasing alarmingly. It came to investigate. The Fox sweetly called, ‘O King, please come in, to your place. Do help yourself to whatever you find here’. The Lion looked in and found too many bones, rotting flesh and a fat fox waging its plump tail.
‘Thank you, O fox’ the Lion said and pounced on the surprised fox and tore away a large chunk of its tail. ‘Your tail is very tasty to chew, I will come for the rest later’ said the lion.
‘Do come, O King’ sang the fox bitter-sweetly, ‘but I am afraid my flesh won’t taste good, because I am starting to hunt’ and hurriedly ran away.
Most of the innocent young were no more foxed by its smile as they could all see its mangled tail too. It took an extraordinarily stupid animal to be foxed again. And nobody minded it as all felt that if the fox could still fox in spite of its torn tail and the foolish prey could be so foolish as to fall for the fox-smile even after seeing the fox-tail then they both deserved what they got. And this extremely rare event gave the animals society something to chew their idle hours with. So the King Lion, who was keeping a wary eye, let it pass.
1st June 2009, 6.30 p.m.
Belur Math
The Old Math (Mother’s Place)
Nilambar Mukherjee Garden House
The smiling fox soon found that it did not need to hunt but just walk lazily near its cave smiling and singing. Many innocent animals were attracted and were merrily eaten. The fox got a bit bored having only little animals for lunch. He wanted the big ones too. He thought up a plan.
When the tiger was passing by dragging its prey, the fox called out, ‘Come O Lord, to this cave. It is your place. Please be gracious and have your meal here’.
Tigers are prone to depression as they don’t get opportunity to socialize nor do they have the Lion’s aura of royalty that gives some consolation. So when the fox called it with such an obviously cheerful face this tiger was pleasantly surprised. It came in and as it was having its meal the fox smiled and sang. The content tiger left the remaining portion of the prey there. As the fox escorted it out, it said very sweetly ‘please come again Lord and again and again, for this is your place, I am only your keeper’.
Soon the King Lion noticed that the animal count was decreasing alarmingly. It came to investigate. The Fox sweetly called, ‘O King, please come in, to your place. Do help yourself to whatever you find here’. The Lion looked in and found too many bones, rotting flesh and a fat fox waging its plump tail.
‘Thank you, O fox’ the Lion said and pounced on the surprised fox and tore away a large chunk of its tail. ‘Your tail is very tasty to chew, I will come for the rest later’ said the lion.
‘Do come, O King’ sang the fox bitter-sweetly, ‘but I am afraid my flesh won’t taste good, because I am starting to hunt’ and hurriedly ran away.
Most of the innocent young were no more foxed by its smile as they could all see its mangled tail too. It took an extraordinarily stupid animal to be foxed again. And nobody minded it as all felt that if the fox could still fox in spite of its torn tail and the foolish prey could be so foolish as to fall for the fox-smile even after seeing the fox-tail then they both deserved what they got. And this extremely rare event gave the animals society something to chew their idle hours with. So the King Lion, who was keeping a wary eye, let it pass.
1st June 2009, 6.30 p.m.
Belur Math
The Old Math (Mother’s Place)
Nilambar Mukherjee Garden House
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