Read the passage carefully.

A gaunt wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a house­dog who was passing by.

“Ah, brother,” said the Dog. “I know how it can be. Your irregular life will soon make the ruin of you. Why don’t you work steadily as I do and regularly get your food given to you?”

“I would have no objection,” said the Wolf, “If I could only get a place.”

“I will easily arrange that for you,” said the Dog. “Come with me to my master, and you will share my work.”

So the Wolf and the Dog went towards the town together. On the way there, the Wolf noticed that the hair on a particular part of the Dog’s neck was very much worn away, so he asked him how that had come about.

“Oh, it is nothing,” said the Dog. “That is only the place where the collar is put on at night to keep me chained up; it is a bit stiff, but one soon gets used to it.”

“Is that all?” said the Wolf. “Then good­bye to you, Master Dog.” The moral of the story is, “Better starve free than be a fat slave.”