The Cock, the Dog and the Fox are of La Fontaine's fables, the dog is shown running in from the distance. La Fontaine's version of the fable has also been set by several composers: 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
Reynard the Fox children's story, written by the Dutch-Belgian Robert van Genechten, and named after the Middle Dutch poem. It was first published in 1937 in "Nieuw-Nederland", a monthly publication of the Dutch Nazi Party's front, the NSB. In 1941 it was published as a book. The story features a rhinoceros called Jodocus, somewhat akin to the Dutch word "jood" ("jew"); and a donkey, Boudewijn, who occupies the throne. "Boudewijn" was the Dutch name for the contemporary real-world Belgian crown prince. In the story, Jodocus is an outsider who comes to the Empire and subsequently introduces new ideas that drastically alter the natural