63 The Fox and the Cat (2016. 04. 21)

A fox was boasting to a cat of its clever devices for escaping its enemies. "I have a whole bag of tricks." he said, "Which contains a hundered ways of escaping my enemies."

 

"I have only one." said the cat; "but I can generally manage with that." Just at that moment they heard the cry of a pack of hounds coming towards them, and the cat immediately scampered up a tree and hid herself in the boughs. "This is my plan." said the cat. "What are you going to do?" The fox thought first of one way, then of another, and while he was debating the hounds came nearer and nearer, and at last the fox in his confusion was caught up by the hounds and soon killed by the huntsemen. The cat, who had been looking on, said:

"Better one safe way than a under on which you cannot reckon."

 

 

devices: 고안, 궁리, 계획

clever: 영리한 독똑한, 재치있는; 유능한

hounds: 사냥개들

scampered: 허둥지둥 도망치다

boughs: 나뭇가지, 큰 가지

huntsmen: 사냥꾼

reckon: ~을 세다, 계산하다