
Learn English with Stories | Reaping Without Sowing
Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge
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The Story of the Lion and the Fox
The message of the story is, people have good reason to be distressed. Distressed means upset when they see the fruits of their own labors borne away by chance comers. When you work hard, but the fruits, the benefits, somebody else gets the benefit. You did all the work, and someone else takes away the rewards. And that's a reasont, good reason to being upset. The lion and the bear were fighting and fighting and fighting each other to get the food the deer, but then the fox just came with no effort and just took it away and walked away. That's it. Nice little story. Again, got a pretty, pretty basic, pretty straightforward
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