Indian Fables:

THE SEA, THE FOX, AND THE WOLF.

A FOX that lived by the sea-shore once met a wolf that had never seen the sea.

The wolf said, " What is the sea ?"

"It is a great piece of water by my dwelling," said the fox.

" Is it under your control ? "said the wolf.

"Certainly," said the fox.

" Will you show me the sea, then ?"said the wolf.

" With pleasure," said the fox. So the fox led the wolf to the sea, and said to the waves" Now go back," they went back !

" Now come up," and they came up ! Then the fox said to the waves," My friend, the wolf has come to see your so you will come up and go back till I bid you stop ;" and the wolf saw, with wonder,the waves coming up and going back.

He said to the fox, "May I go into the sea?"

" As far as you like. Don't be afraid, for, at a word, the sea would go or come as I bid, and as you have already seen."

The wolf believed the fox, and followed the waves rather far from the shore. A great wave soon upset him, and threw up his carcass on the shore.

The fox made a hearty breakfast on it, saying," The fool's ear was made for the knaves tongue"