An Anecdote

[Innocuous Traveler]

A fox approaches a squirrel in the forest. The fox says to the squirrel, "I am rather hungry. Although it saddens me, I am afraid I must devour you, squirrel." 

The squirrel regards the fox apprehensively, but promptly remarks, "You may be hungry, fox, but your kind are few. There are many squirrels. A wiser creature may elect not to prey upon those who outnumber him so."

The fox then grins tacitly and replies, "Squirrel, although your kind are many and my kind are few, you are merely a squirrel. Squirrel, I fear my teeth are sharper than your tongue and my jaws more fortuitous than your numbers."

The fox proceeds to consume the squirrel and many other squirrels. 

[Deleted]

This has never happened.

[Thoradus Copperware]

I consider myself more of a badger than a squirrel, thanks.

[Brenda]

Red say she heard the same story, except that it was a very large wolf, not a fox. And it was not a squirrel 'e was interested in goblin up for 'is dinner.

-Pachamama

[bilgerat]

Bilge no like Red version, me no like traveller story either. Bilge will use blade and ice to cut down any goblin feeding wolf

[Deleted]

The Great Hounds tell such a story, with Garm the Great Wolf speaking to Sindri the Clever Squirrel, but Sindri tricks hungry Garm into trying to hunt too many squirrels at once, and catching none of them for it. If deadly jaws always won, there would be no squirrels.

~Brom

Scribed by Julian Verdan