{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sfft/sfft13.htm","path":"neu/celt/sfft/sfft13.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sfft/sfft13.htm","text":"Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, by George Douglas, [1901]\nONE day the fox succeeded in catching a fine fat goose asleep by the side of a loch; he held her by the wing, and making a joke of her cackling, hissing, and fears, he said--\n\"Now, if you had me in your mouth as I have you, tell me what you would do?\"\n\"Why,\" said the goose, \"that is an easy question. I would fold my hands, shut my eyes, say a grace, and then eat you.\"\n\"Just what I mean to do,\" said Rory; 2 and folding his hands, and looking very demure, he said a pious grace with his eyes shut.\nBut while he did this the goose had spread her wings, and she was now half way over the loch; so the fox was left to lick his lips for supper.\n\"I will make a rule of this,\" he said in disgust, never in all my life to say a grace again till after I feel the meat warm in my belly.\"\n90:1 J. F. Campbell, Popular Tales of the West Highlands.\n90:2 Rory is a corruption of a Gaelic proper name, which means, one whose hair is the color of the fox \"Ruadh.\"","title":"Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales: Stories of Animals: The Fox Outwitted","type":"page"}