Once there was a crow found a piece of meat from a village. It flies high above and went to the forest. It was sitting on one of the branches of the tree. A fox was searching food in the forest. He roamed here and there in search of food but could not find anything to eat.
To take rest it sat under a tree. When the fox looked up, he saw, to his great joy, a crow sitting on one of the branches of that tree. He was holding a piece of meat in his beak. On seeing this, his mouth began to water and started thinking about the piece of meat. At last he got a plan to get the piece of meat from the crow.
He got up and said to crow, "Good morning. I am glad to meet you. How handsome you look! What a nice beak you have! But if you could sing so sweet as you are beautiful, you could win for yourself the title of the 'Queen of the birds'."
The foolish crow was felt very happy this talks from the fox. He became excited and at once opened his beak. As he gave out a loud caw in his cracked voice, the piece of meat fell down on the ground.
The fox picked it up and ate it up at once. The poor crow had to repent on his foolishness.
Moral: Do not give way to flattery.
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