A Lion had come to the end of his days and lay sick unto death at the mouth of his cave, gasping for Cloze (1): safekickeddeathbreathgrowledhelpless JXUwMDNhJXUwMDEwJXUwMDE3JXUwMDA0JXUwMDE1JXUwMDFj . The animals, his subjects, came round him and drew nearer as he grew more and more Cloze (2): safekickeddeathbreathgrowledhelpless JXUwMDMwJXUwMDBkJXUwMDA5JXUwMDFjJXUwMDFjJXUwMDA5JXUwMDE2JXUwMDAw .

When they saw him on the point of Cloze (3): safekickeddeathbreathgrowledhelpless JXUwMDNjJXUwMDAxJXUwMDA0JXUwMDE1JXUwMDFj they thought to themselves: "Now is the time to pay off old grudges." So the Bear came up and drove at him with his paws; then a Bull gored him with his horns; still the Lion lay helpless before them: so the Donkey, feeling quite Cloze (4): safekickeddeathbreathgrowledhelpless JXUwMDJiJXUwMDEyJXUwMDA3JXUwMDAz from danger, came up, and turning his tail to the Lion Cloze (5): safekickeddeathbreathgrowledhelpless JXUwMDMzJXUwMDAyJXUwMDBhJXUwMDA4JXUwMDBlJXUwMDAx up his heels into his face. "This is a double death," Cloze (6): safekickeddeathbreathgrowledhelpless JXUwMDNmJXUwMDE1JXUwMDFkJXUwMDE4JXUwMDFiJXUwMDA5JXUwMDAx the Lion.

Only cowards insult a dying lion.