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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 jaw to swallow him.

Pardon, O King,"

cried the little Mouse;

forgive me this time,

I shall never forget it.

Who knows

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.

Some time after

the lion was caught in a trap,

and the hunters, 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.

Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by,

and seeing the sad plight in which the lion was,

went up to him

and soon gnawed away the ropes

that bound the King of the Beasts.