The Fox and The Wise Man (A Short Story)

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Once a Wise Man saw a fox in the wood

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Alas ! The fox ran and concealed as a blink of an eye.

The Wise Man’s heart was very heavy, for he was not meant to kill but only seek a company

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Thus the Wise Man shouted at very loud : “Dearest friend, hearken my plead!” “ My manner as honest & gentle as a manner possibly could be”

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“I believe that you are such a friend I am sure not to be forgotten by myself in the course of age. And I would again say that you are such beauty I’ve never seen like. I too am quite delighted to a solitary. Yet to you I feel like something you loaded inside my heart, which the heat of my heart gaining in strength. Thus if given a chance…. would you be my friend?”

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The Wise Man waited a friendly face to appear

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Yet none a face came