Aesop's Fables Edited by Charles Stikeney.

 

THE BOAR AND THE FOX

A  Boar  stood  whetting  his tusks against a tree.    "What  do  you  mean,"  asked  a  Fox, "by such warlike preparation?  There is no enemy in sight."    "When  the  enemy  is  in  sight,"  said  the Boar, "it  is  time  to think of something else."