It is becoming apparent that, in almost all of these stories, the most wise creature is the one who survives. What is interesting is determining who is the wisest. In this story, it seems as though the hare is going to get exactly what he wants by manipulating the lion. Unfortunately, it is the fox who is the smartest, and the hare dies (spoiler alert).
Again, it is a twist at the end when we learn that the camel driver used the fox to outwit the adder. Although the camel driver seems doomed because he saved the evil adder, he uses the cunning of the fox to defeat the adder. Yet another story where the fox outsmarts the others.
I remember hearing this story when I was little. The crane outwits the fish, and so he makes quick and easy work of them; however, the crane gets greedy and tries to kill his enemy, the crab, too. The crab realizes what the crane has done once he sees the fish bones and kills the crane at once.
This story explicitly says what I have been discussing throughout this half of the reading diary. The fish who always used his wits got away, the fish who sometimes used his wits survived, and the fish who never used his wits was killed.
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