“The Two Foxes and the Hot Rolls." A book of fairy-tale foxes: selections from favorite folk-lore stories, edited by Clifton Johnson, Boston: Houghton Mifflin; 1914, pp. 83-86.

Tale Summary

Once upon a time there were two very hungry foxes, a small and a big one, lying along the edge of a woods near a roadway too weak and tired to try and find food. Then they spied a peasant girl coming out of the woods with a basket of hot rolls on her back, and the big fox thought of a way to trick her out of them. He had the smaller fox lay on the road and pretend to be dead, and while she put down her basket to bend down and scoop him up, the big fox ran by and snatched it away with the small fox in tow. It became clear that the big fox had no intention of sharing, and only stopped running when they reached a blacksmith’s shop, where they noticed one of the horses had a gold shoe with a name on the bottom. The big fox said he had never seen a name on a horseshoe before, and when he got closer to see, the horse kicked him, killing him, and the small fox made away with all the rolls.