The Lion and the Mouse

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. \King,\

never forget it: who knows but what I may be able to do you a turn some of these days?\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. \said the little Mouse.

Little friends may prove great friends.