fable:the fox and the stork

FABLES
THE FOX AND THE STORK
One day a fox asked a stork to come and dine with him. “Thank you”, said the stork; “ I will do so with pleasure” the fox is a funny fellow ,and he wished to play a trick on the simple stork.
When the stork came, all she found on the table was some thin soup in shallow plates. She could get only a taste of the soup by dipping in the point of her long, sharp bill. The fox lapped it up quickly with his broad tongue, now and then asking the stork how she liked her dinner.
Some days after, the stork asked the fox to dine with her. Sly as he was, he did not expect to be paid back in the same coin; so he went.
When dinner was served, he was much vexed to see nothing on the table but some fine hot soup in long narrow-necked jars. This time the stork had good dinner and the fox could only lick the outside of the jar.
“Is this all you have for dinner?” asked the fox.
“Nothing more” said the stork. “I am glad to see you are so hungry. You will surely make as good a dinner at my table as I did at yours the other day”
The fox was inclined to be angry, but had to own that he had been rightly dealt with. He felt that if he did not to have a joke played upon him, he should not have played one upon the stork.
After a while, however, the generous stork poured out half the scup into a plate and gave it, to the fox.
The cunning old fox felt so ashamed of himself that he has never looked anyone straight in the face from that day to this.
BY: AEsop.

MORAL: Do to others as you would have others do to you.
He laughs best who laughs last.