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HERE was once a sly old fox with nine tails, who was very curious to know whether his wife was true to him: so he stretched himself out under a bench, and pretended to be dead as a mouse.

Then Mrs. Fox went up into her own room and locked the door: but her maid, the cat, sat at the kitchen fire cooking; and soon after it became known that the old fox was dead, some one knocked at the door, saying,

Then the cat went and opened the door, and there stood a young fox; so she said to him,

"No, I thank you," said the fox; "but how is poor Mrs. Fox?" Then the cat answered,