Once there lived a crow in a tree near to a village. One day morning it had snatched a piece of cheese out of a window and flew with it into a high tree. By chance a fox happened met the crow. The fox thought of that piece and thus he planned to get with his approaches.
"Oh My dear how beautiful are your wings! How bright shine eye! How graceful thy neck! How beautiful voice you have I want to listen your voice dear. You are the queen of all the birds."
The Crow pleased with the flattery and chuckling to think how she would surprise the Fox with her voice. As she opened her mouth; down dropped the cheese which the Fox snapping up, observed, as he walked away, that whatever he had remarked of her beauty, he had said nothing yet of her brains.
Moral: Flattery without some private end in view; and they who listen to such things expect to have to pay the precious things.
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