Pratt: The Fox and the Stork.

A fox once invited a stork to dinner. The fox served the dinner in a flat, shallow dish. He could lap the soup very quickly from the dish; but the poor stork could only pick up a bit at a time on the end of her bill. "It has been a very nice dinner," said the stork, politely, as she went home. "A week from to-day I shall be pleased to have you come and dine with me." When the day came, the fox, always ready to eat, went to the stork's house as he had been asked to do. But alas for Mr. Fox! The stork served the dinner in a tall glass jar. The stork could reach into the jar with her long bill very nicely. But Mr. Fox could only lap a drop now and then, as it ran down the side of the jar. Mr. Fox was angry enough. Mrs. Stork laughed at him. The fox and the stork never dined together again.

Source: Mara Pratt's Aesop 17.

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