Language Arts
Level 3
Lesson
109
Story Summary
Read this abridged Aesop’s Fable, “The Fox and the Crow.” Write a summary.
One bright morning as the Fox was following his sharp nose through the wood in
search of a bite to eat, he saw a Crow on the limb of a tree overhead. This lucky
Crow held a bit of cheese in her beak.
"No need to search any farther," thought sly Master Fox. "Here is a dainty bite for
my breakfast."
Up he trotted to the foot of the tree in which the Crow was sitting, and looking up
admiringly, he cried, "Good-morning, beautiful creature!"
The Crow, her head cocked on one side, watched the Fox suspiciously. But she
kept her beak tightly closed on the cheese and did not return his greeting.
"What a charming creature she is!" said the Fox. "How her feathers shine! What a
beautiful form and what splendid wings! Could she sing just one song, I know I
should hail her Queen of Birds."
Listening to these flattering words, the Crow forgot all her suspicion, and also her
breakfast. She wanted very much to be called Queen of Birds.
So she opened her beak wide to utter her loudest caw, and down fell the cheese
straight into the Fox's open mouth.
