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The Lion & Mouse ⌠Little friends may prove great friends.■
Once when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down upon him; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed hes 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 forget it: who knows but what I may be able to do You a turn some 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. The time went by and one day the Lion was caught in a trap, and the hurnters who desired to carry him alive to the King, tied him to a tree while they went in search of a waggon to carry him on. |
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The Lion started to roar and the Mouse, recognizing his roar, came by, and seeing the sad plight n which the Lion was, went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of the Beasts, and set him free. ⌠Was I not right?■ said the little Mouse. |
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The Dove and the Ant An Ant, going to a river to drink, fell in, and was carried along in the stream. A Dove pitied her condition, and threw into the river a small bough, by means of which the Ant gained the shore. The Ant afterward, seeing a man with a fowlingpiece aiming at the Dove, stung him in the foot sharply, and made him miss his aim, and so shaved the Dove's life. Little friends may prove great friends.
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