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The Cock, the Dog and the Fox is one of Aesop's Fables and appears as number 252 in the Perry Index. Although it has similarities with other fables where a predator flatters a bird, such as The Fox and the Crow and Chanticleer and the Fox, in this one the cock is the victor rather than victim. There are also Eastern variants of this story. ==Versions of the fable== In the Greek story, a cock and a dog go on a journey together. At night, the cock roosts in a tree while the dog curls up at its roots. When the cock crowed in the morning, it attracted a fox that made friendly overtures and tried to lure the bird down. The cock agrees, telling it to ask the porter to open the door so that it can come out. The fox stumbles on the sleeping dog and is killed. An ancient Indian variant of the fable appears in the Buddhist scriptures as the ''Kukuta-Jataka''.〔The Jataka or stories of the Buddha's former births, ed. E.B. Cowell, Cambridge University Press, 1895, pp. 168-9 (available online )〕 Here a predatory cat, having killed all the other fowls, tries to woo the cock down with a promise of marriage, but it is not to be deceived and denounces the cat for its former slaughter. In its journey westwards, the tale was eventually included in The Thousand and One Nights and was translated by Richard F. Burton as ''The Pleasant History of the Cock and the Fox''.〔Available on Wikisource〕 This version, enlarged by the fox's many flights of rhetoric, recounts how the beast tries to lure the cock down from a wall with the news that universal friendship has been declared between the hunters and the hunted. The cock refuses even to acknowledge the fox's fine words but finally announces that he is convinced for he can see greyhounds running towards them who must be messengers from the King of the Beasts. When the agitated fox starts to leave, the cock asks him the reason; the fox replies that he fears the dogs were not present when the peace was announced. This version of the story was an influence on the fable's retelling in Europe. It is to be found early among the humorous stories of Poggio Bracciolini's ''Facetiae'' (1450), where the fleeing fox explains only that the dogs have not yet heard that peace has been declared.〔''The Facetiae'', a new translation by Bernhardt J.Hurwood, London 1968, Tale 78, pp.78-9)〕 In Francis Barlow's illustrated edition of the fables (1687), Aphra Behn's verse summary tells the Eastern tale with this same conclusion, while the Latin prose summary follows Aesop's account. At a slightly earlier date, Jean de la Fontaine had versified the Oriental story in his ''Fables'' (II.15, ''Le coq et le renard''),〔An English translation (online )〕 but Behn was not following La Fontaine in this instance. His fox only explains that it is in a hurry to spread the good news as the reason for its departure. In Pierre Perret's updated version of La Fontaine for the television series ''Les Fables Géometriques'' (1990), the cock is a jazz club performer and the protective dog is its bouncer.〔View on (YouTube )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Cock, the Dog and the Fox」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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