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THE FOX AND THE GRAPES

One fine and sunny day a fox was strolling along minding his own foxy

business.

He thought he might sit down under a shady tree and have some lunch, as

he was a bit thirsty and hungry.

Then he realised he’d left his lovely packed lunch at home.

"Oh, you foolish fox!” he said to himself.

But just then he looked up and what should he see but the most delicious-

looking bunch of purple grapes he’d ever seen in his whole foxy life.
They were just sitting there; hanging from a grapevine that ran along the

branches of a tree.

The grapes looked like they were about to burst with the tastiest juice and

the fox’s mouth began to water. “Oh, I’ve got to have these, just got to!” he

muttered to himself, “I shall fill my foxy face with them!”


The bunch of grapes hung from a very high branch so the fox jumped up to

reach it. He hadn’t jumped high enough and missed it by a long way. So he

walked back a little way and took a running leap. Up he went but not high

enough and his paw missed the grapes. He kept jumping and jumping but

every single time he missed.

Now he was hot and tired and thirsty and hungry and cross. He sat down

under the tree and looked up at the grapes in disgust.

"What a foxy fool I am," he muttered. "What am I doing wearing myself out

jumping up and down on a hot day like this just to get hold of a bunch of

horrible old sour grapes?"

So, he got up, made a cross face and off he went.


And the moral of the story is that sometimes people pretend to dislike

things they can’t have. Oh, and did you know that this is where the phrase

‘sour grapes’ comes from?

The End

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