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23. The Lion And The Mouse Exchange Favors
A mouse once danced without a look,
Not noticing the road he took.
He suddenly looked down and froze!
He'd danced out on a lion's nose!
Zip! Zap! Before he could
withdraw
He lay beneath the lion's paw.
SORRY!
said he in wild dismay---
So Lion let him go his way.
A short time later hunters set
A trap-- and Lion fell in their net!
And as he moaned his awful fate
Up came the mouse calm and sedate,
And gnawed and gnawed and
gnawed and gnawed
Until that net in two was sawed!
Then running off their separate ways
They thought:
Yes, kindness always pays.
MORAL: Little friends may prove to be great friends.
from the book Prayers and Fables and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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