pulled at his club.

At once the man pulled back on his club.

Then the King of the Wolves ran off saying: "If you had been dead, you
would not have pulled back on your club when I tried to pull it away.
I see your trick. You pretend you are dead so that you may kill one of
us for your supper."

[Illustration]

The man jumped up and threw his club at the King of the Wolves. But he
missed his aim. He looked for the other animals but there was not one
in sight. They had all run away.


Then the man went back to his friends, saying: "I tried to get fresh
meat by playing a trick on the animals, but the cunning Wolf played a
better trick on me, and I could not get one of them."

[Illustration]




VIII

THE PENNY-WISE MONKEY