The Fox and the Cock

A fox came toward a cock and said to him, "I would like know if you can sing as well as your father did." The cock shut his eyes and began to cry and sing and the fox took and carried him away. The people of the town started crying, "The fox is getting away with the cock!"

The cock then said to the fox, "My lord, don't you understand what the people are saying, that you are taking their cock? Tell them that it is your cock and not theirs." As the fox said, "It is not yours, but it is mine," the cock escaped from the fox's mouth and flew up a tree.

Then the cock said to the fox, "You lied, for I am theirs and not yours." The fox began to hit the earth with his mouth and head, saying, "Mouth, you have spoken too much! You should have eaten the cock had not your words been too many."

Much talking causes harm and too much crowing causes hurt.