People everywhere tell fables, which are usually stories about animals. But the animals really stand for people. A fable tries to teach us a lesson that will make us better or wiser. The lesson is often summed up at the end as a moral , which is a piece of advice like Always look before you leap .
Some fables are quite old.
The three below are said to be by Aesop, an ancient Greek who lived six centuries before Jesus was born. After you read the first story and its moral, you might enjoy trying to figure out the morals of the next two stories for yourself. Just cover up the moral we ve given with your finger, and see if you can make up your own. One hot afternoon, a hungry fox was walking in a vineyard, when he spotted a bunch of grapes hanging high up on a vine. The grapes were so fat with sweet juice that their swaying set the whole vine into motion.