# The Dogs and the Fox

- Source: The Aesop for Children (aesop.gutenberg.org), Public domain, Aesop, pictures by Milo Winter, 1919, via Project Gutenberg
- Reading level: Grades 3 and 4
- Subjects: Stories, Animals
- Topics: dogs, lion, teeth, alive, began, chanced
- Length: 72 words, about 1 min
- Original: <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19994>
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Some Dogs found the skin of a Lion and furiously began to tear it with their teeth. A Fox chanced to see them and laughed scornfully.

"If that Lion had been alive," he said, "it would have been a very different story. He would have made you feel how much sharper his claws are than your teeth."

It is easy and also contemptible to kick a man that is down.

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