A Fable

A Fairy Tale This skinny lonely wolf reduced to eating worms Expulsed from his arguing with the leader wolf how best To catch caribous Nose to the ground it found an open chest of fifty Gold ducats and since they shone so bright he ate them all And heavy was its belly When other wolf saw his stomach they thought he was A successful hunter and he taught them how to kill Caribous and deer too. As a leader dog, he was the first to eat from a kill and Left behind a coin or as they a ducat and a hunter stalked him To find in his excrete another coin Fifty times the hunter dug into wolf shift and came up rich And trekked home but a blizzard came, his was ill prepared This heavyweight he dragged about Put the ducats under a tree and tire he came home When the weather cleared, he found the tree the coins were gone And a boney wolf was walking away it had a huge stomach.