A camel, a wolf and a fox became friends and were travelling abroad together when they found a loaf of bread dropped by other travellers.
“ What are we to do?” they said. “There is clearly not enough for all of us?”
“There is indeed only enough for one of us,” said the fox. “Let the oldest among us have it all to himself.”
They agreed.
“Well, I am the oldest,” said the wolf. “I am the male wolf that Noah sheltered in his Ark at the time of the Flood.”
“Then you are the same age as my granson,” said the fox, “for I am the fox that God placed before Adam when he named the beasts of the field.”
The camel had already stretched out his long neck, lifted the loaf aloft, and was chewing it contentedly.
“You have a lot to say, for little creatures!” he said. “Do you imagine that I, who have grown legs like this, was born yesterday?”
And he swallowed the bred.
The wolf and the fox circled round him, but seeing that they could do nothing to harm him, they left him and went their own way.
VARDAN
Source : Armenian Folk-Tales and Fables. London: Oxford University Press, 1972
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