The Lion and the Mouse

The Lion and The Mouse

Adapted by: Aesop's Fables

Little friends may prove great friends

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.

"Pardon, O King," cried the little Mouse: 

"forgive me this time, I shall never forget 

it: who knows but what I maybe able to 

do you a turn some of these days?" 

The Lion was 

so tickled at the

 idea of the 

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.

"Was I not right?" said the little Mouse. Little friends 

may prove great friends.