Once upon a time, a fox was caught..........their tails just because he had lost his own tail.

Once upon a time, a fox was caught in a trap. He freed himself but had to leave his tail behind. At first he was ashamed to show, himself among his fellow foxes. But at last he put a bolder face upon the loss of his tail and called all the foxes to a meeting.

So one day all the foxes gathered round him, and he began to talk to them about their tails. “Tails are really of no use,” said he. “They are nothing but a dead weight hanging on to one. How good it is without a tail! Do let me advise you all to cut off yours.”

Thus he went for some time until one of the foxes spoke up, “That is all, very well, but I do not think you would have so advised us if you had not lost the tail yourself.”

Summary: A fox, who was caught in a trap, lost his tail. He wished all foxes to be like him. He called a meeting of foxes and said that tails were of no use to foxes and they ‘should all cut off theirs. One of them said that the fox told them to cut off their tails just because he had lost his own tail.