Na m e : ___ _
Directions:Date:Number the events in the order they happened in the story.Here’s a trick that works. As you read, focus on
remembering as many details as you can.____ Two weeks later, the leader called the fox again.
____ The skunks went to their leader for advice.
____ The leader got an idea and phoned the weather fox.
____ The fox said it was going to be very, very cold.
____ The leader looked at the sky.
____ The leader made his final phone call.
____ The leader asked the fox how he knew about the weather.
____ The leader didn’t know what to say, so he told the group to collect wood.
More Wood—A Funny Fable
Winter was on its way, and the skunks went to their leader to seek his advise on how cold
it would be. Being a new and young leader, he didn’t know the ways the leaders before
him had forecasted the weather. He gazed at the sky, but he couldn’t tell. So to be safe,
he told his group that it was going to be very cold and to collect wood for the fireplaces
in their dens.
A few days later, an idea hit him. He flipped out his cellular phone and called the local
weather fox. “How cold will it be this winter?” the skunk asked. “Very cold,” the fox
replied. So the leader went back to his group and told them to collect more wood.
Two weeks later, he called the weather fox and asked the same question. “Very, very,
cold,” was the reply. The leader told his group to collect still more wood.
Three weeks later, the leader made a final call to the fox. “Are you really sure about the
cold winter?” he asked.
“You bet,” quipped the fox. “It’s going to be a real bone chiller.”
“Just how do you know this?” the skunk probed.
The fox explained, “Well, you know all those skunks? They’re stocking up on wood like
you wouldn’t believe.”
The moral:Don’t rely on the word of a foxy weather forecaster.