Aesop's Fables: The Mouse and the Lion
Once when a Lion was asleep a little
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began running up and down upon him; this soon woke up the
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, who placed his huge paw upon him, and
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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 return the favor some day?" The Lion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being able to
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him, that he lifted up his paw and let him go. Some time after the Lion was caught in a trap, and the
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who desired to carry him alive to the King, tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him on. Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad situation in which the Lion was, went up to him and soon chew on the
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that bound the King of the Beasts. "Was I not right?" said the little Mouse.
Little friends may prove great friends.