The Lion and The Mouse

Once upon a time a lion was asleep under a tree. 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. "Pardon, O King," cried the little Mouse: "forgive me this time, I shall never forget it: who knows but what I can do for you. I may be able to do you a turn some of these days?" 

The Lion was so excited at the idea of the Mouse being able to help him that he lifted up his paw and let him go. 

Some Days later 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 wagon 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. "Was I not right?" said the little Mouse.

The Frogs and the Fighting Bulls

There lived a group of frog in the march near a lake. One day two bulls were fighting furiously in a field, at one side of which was a marsh. An old frog living with his fellow in the marsh trembled as he watched the fierce battle.

What are you afraid of? asked a young child of the frog. "Do you not see," replied the old Frog, "that the bull that is beaten, will be driven away from the good forage up there to the reeds of this marsh, and we shall all be trampled into the mud?" We all will die with their fighting. So now we should leave this place for save our life.

It turned out as the Frog had said. The beaten Bull was driven to the marsh, where his great hoofs take the frogs to death.


Moral: When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it.