Once upon a time, there lived a fox and a stork (鹳) in a forest . One day the fox asked the stork to dinner, with the naughty purpose of playing a 1 on his guest.
The stork came at the hour 2 , with a good appetite for her meal. But she was little 3 on finding that it was made of meat, served up in a shallow (浅) dish. With her long slender bill (细嘴), she could 4 pick up enough food to satisfy a tinny bird! The fox kept eating all the time, only 5 a moment to say, "I hope, madam, that you enjoy your big meal? Don't you 6 that my specially-prepared meal is first-grade?"
The stork made no 7 , but left, hungry and much displeased, from the almost 8 meal.
A few days afterwards, the stork returned the fox's invitation by asking him to dinner.
The fox hurried to the place of meeting, 9 the stork had made ready her meal. The fox became greatly dissatisfied, 10 the food served up in a long-necked jar (罐), which let in the stork's slender bill, 11 he could not stick into the jar even his sharp nose!
"I hope, sir, that you like your big meal?" said the stork, who was not 12 enough to return good for evil (恶), and who wished to give the fox a 13 . And as the hungry fox looked sadly up into 14 face, the stork added, "Those who cannot take a joke in good part should 15 make one. Never do to others what you would not like them to do to yourself."
