Keep Your Eyes Open

Once there was an old lion who had grown so weak that he could no longer hunt for food. He thought, “If I don’t find a way to eat, I’ll starve.”

After thinking for a long time, he came up with a clever but cruel plan. He decided to lie down in his cave and pretend to be sick. Whenever any animal came to visit and check on him, he would attack and eat them.

The plan worked at first. Many kind animals came to see the “sick” lion and never came back out.

But evil plans don’t last forever.

One day, a smart fox came to visit the lion. As foxes are clever by nature, he stopped at the entrance of the cave and looked around carefully. He noticed something strange — there were only footprints going into the cave, but none coming out.

The fox called out, “Hello, Lion! How are you feeling?”

The lion replied weakly, “I’m very sick. Why don’t you come inside?”

The fox said, “I would have come in, but I see many footprints going into your cave and none coming out. That tells me everything I need to know!”

And with that, the fox warned the other animals about the lion’s trick.

Moral: Always be alert and think before you act.

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