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The Fox and the Goat – English Fairy Tale

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The Fox and the Goat - An English fairy tale from Aesop's Fables with a podcast or video and a list of English vocabulary and expressions to improve your listening, reading and vocabulary Source: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCwo9uIEKoY&t=202s The Fox and the Goat A fox one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of escape. A goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and seeing the fox, inquired if the water was good. Concealing his sad plight under a merry guise, the fox indulged in a lavish praise of the water, saying it ...

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  1. The fox deceived the goat by saying that the water of the well is excellent and convinced him to descend.
    The moral of the story is to consider the consequences of our actions and not to act mindlessly.

    • The situation was even more aggravated when the naive goat was fooled twice in succession. The first time when the gullible goat was tricked into the well could be pardonable. Nevertheless, the second time when he was duped again and used as a ladder was quite intolerable.

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