The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox

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The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox
        A LION, growing old, lay sick in his cave.  All the beasts came
        to visit their king, except the Fox.  The Wolf therefore,
        thinking that he had a capital opportunity, accused the Fox to
        the Lion of not paying any respect to him who had the rule over
        them all and of not coming to visit him.  At that very moment the
        Fox came in and heard these last words of the Wolf.  The Lion
        roaring out in a rage against him, the Fox sought an opportunity
        to defend himself and said, "And who of all those who have come
        to you have benefited you so much as I, who have traveled from
        place to place in every direction, and have sought and learnt
        from the physicians the means of healing you?'  The Lion commanded
        him immediately to tell him the cure, when he replied, "You must
        flay a wolf alive and wrap his skin yet warm around you."  The
        Wolf was at once taken and flayed; whereon the Fox, turning to
        him, said with a smile, "You should have moved your master not to
        ill, but to good, will."