The Lion And The Mouse – One Of Aesop’s Fables (TEXT)
THE LION AND THE MOUSE FABLE – In this topic, we are going to read the full text of “The Lion and the Mouse” one of the well-known Aesop’s fables.
This is yet another story from Aesop’s fables, as mentioned above, It is numbered 150 in the Perry Index. It tells the story of the growing friendship between the mighty lion and the tiny mouse.
The story is meant to show us mutual dependence regardless of size or status, as well as friendship that comes from it.
Here is the full text of the story uplifted from Read.gov:
A lion lay asleep in the forest with his mighty head resting on his paws. A tiny mouse approached him unexpectedly. In her fear and haste to get away, she ran across the lion’s nose. Awaken from his nap, the lion laid his paw in a fit of rage on the mouse to kill her.
The mouse begged the lion to spare her and assured the lion that she will repay him.
The lion was amused to the thought that a tiny mouse could help him, so he let her go in a generous manner,.
Days have past and the lion was stalking his prey in the forest. He was caught in the toils of a hunter’s net. He was unable to free himself and laid a mighty roar on the forest. The mouse knew whose roar it was and found the Lion struggling in the net. She approached the great ropes that bound him and gnawed on it until he was free.
“You laughed when I said I would repay you,”
“Now you see that even a Mouse can help a Lion.”
A kindness is never wasted.
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