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Second EndingOne day the squirrel thought: I am taking a huge risk to benefit a rogue. The dogs might catch me on the ground or the farmer may well discover what I am doing. Then I will be killed instead of the fox. Perhaps it is time to dissolve the partnership.So, on the fox's next raid, the squirrel erased its first set of tracks. Then, when the fox ran back with the chicken, the squirrel stayed where it was and watched the dogs follow the fox to its hiding place at the edge of the forest, where they fell on it and killed it. For the fox had grown lazy and overconfident due to the aid the squirrel had given it. |
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