A Wolf had been feasting too greedily,
and a bone had stuck crosswise in his
throat. He could get it neither up nor
down, and of course he could not eat a
thing. Naturally that was an awful state of
affairs for a greedy Wolf.
So away he hurried to the Crane. He was
sure that she, with her long neck and bill,
would easily be able to reach the bone and
pull it out. "I will reward you very
handsomely," said the Wolf, "if you pull
that bone out for me."
The Crane, as you can imagine, was very
uneasy about putting her head in a Wolf's
throat. But she was grasping in nature, so
she did what the Wolf asked her to do.
When the Wolf felt that the bone was
gone, he started to walk away. "But what
about my reward!" called the Crane
anxiously.
"What!" snarled the Wolf, whirling around. "Haven't you got it? Isn't it enough that I let
you take your head out of my mouth without snapping it off?"


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