The Cock, the Dog and the Fox The Cock, the Dog and the Fox The Cock, the Dog and the Fox is one of Aesop's Fables and appears as number 252 in the Perry Index. Although it has similarities with other fables where a predator flatters a bird, such as The Fox and the Crow and Chanticleer and the Fox, in this one the cock is the victor rather than victim. There are also Eastern variants of this story. In the Greek story, a cock and a dog go on a journey together. At night, the cock roosts in a tree while the dog curls up at
The Cock and the Jasp The Cock and the Jasp "The Taill of the Cok and the Jasp" is a Middle Scots version of Aesop's Fable "The Cock and the Jewel" by the 15th-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson. It is the first in Henryson's collection known as the "Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian". "The Cok and the Jasp" is framed by a prologue and a "moralitas", and as the first poem in the collection it operates on a number of levels, and in all its parts, to introduce the larger cycle. Although the Aesopian tale of "The Cock and the Jewel", which Henryson re-tells,