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The Fox and the Hen · African Jungle Tales

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Section nineteen of African Jungle Tales by Carl Bender. This LibriVox recording is in
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the public domain. The Fox and the Hen. The fox one day called
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the hen to pick off the ticks that annoyed him. This the hen did,
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and then went home again. On the following day, the fox again
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called the hen to pick off the ticks. When he saw the hen coming
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along, he pretended to be sound asleep. When the hen had come within
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reach, he suddenly jumped up and seized her by the leg. Faw aw.
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It rang through the air as the hen cried for help. A man
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who was clearing a field near by happened to hear the screams of the hen.
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He immediately dropped his tools and hurried to the scene. Seeing feathers in
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the mouth of the fox, he asked him, fox, did you eat
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the hen? No, answered the fox, And the man said, if
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you did not eat the hen, how then do you account for the feathers
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in your mouth. The feathers are of no account, was the reply of
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the fox. Author's note juaquene and of section nineteen, read by Laura Gibbs