Fairy Tale Spotlight: The Fool and the Ferret

So this is the last of my own person fables. "The Fool and the Ferret" was written back in 2015 during a hilarious ferret phase I went through. (Although it may not have ever actually stopped.) Here is the fable in full. I hope you enjoy it!

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Once there was a fool who knew not the value of money. He tossed any coin away that possessed an imperfection–such as a scratch. A ferret came by and snatched the coins away to place in his treasure trove. To himself, he stated, “I should never spend any of this, for if I do, I shall not be as wealthy!” But really, who would sell to a ferret but another fool!

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So I was playing on the trope about how ferrets like stealing stuff and stashing it all away. They really do that. And yes, they will steal money. The point of the story was to show a comparison between wastefulness and miserliness. Not to be punny, but the concepts can often be two sides of the same coin.

The fool was very cavalier with his spending habits. It seemed like he did not understand anything of value. The ferret did understand value but did nothing but save and collect. Both are really not any good.

I was somewhat surprised that I tried to write a moral tale about money. Money has never really been a huge deal to me other than simply needing it to survive. I think I just wanted to come up with a good and clever ferret fable.

The very last sentence doubles as a really weird moral. It sounds more to me like a punchline. I tend to be very cyclic in my thinking sometimes. I probably saw it as a way to just bring the short fable into a full circle in the form of a joke. I don't think it is really all that serious in its meaning, but I hope you found it funny. But if you have a better moral for it, lay it on me!

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