The Lion and the Mouse
Once when a
Lion was asleep, a little Mouse began running up and down upon him. This soon
wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him and opened his big jaws to
swallow him.
"Pardon, O King!" cried the
little Mouse, "Forgive me this time. I shall never repeat it and I shall
never forget your kindness. And who knows, but I may be able to do you a good
turn one of these days?"
The Lion was so tickled at the idea of
the Mouse being able to help him, that he lifted up his paw and let him go.
Sometime later a few hunters captured
the King and tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry
him on.
Just
then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight in which
the Lion was, ran up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King
of the Beasts. "Was I not right?" said the little Mouse, very happy
to help the Lion.
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