FableNº 327

The Boar and the Fox

A boar, stationed by a tree, was sharpening his tusks. A fox asked him why, when neither hunter nor danger pressed him, he was whetting his tusks. "It is not for nothing," he said, "that I do it; for if danger takes me by surprise, I shall not then have the leisure to sharpen them; but I shall find them all ready to do their office."

Prepare before danger arrives.

Moral

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