Excerpt from The Lion and the Mouse
Æsop Sixth century BC) Fables. The Harvard Classics 1909-14
ONCE when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down upon him; this soon wained the Lion, who placed his
huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him Pardon, King cried the title Mosse v e me this time
shall never forget it who knows but what I may be able to do you a turn some of these days 7 The Lion was sicked 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 ushtarap 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 on
lust then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight in which the Lion wasnt up to and soon
gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of the Beasts. Was I not right said the ele Mouse
Which is likely to be the moral or theme of this passage?
A)
You can never trust a lion
A mouse is more clever than a lion
Alion and a mouse
unlikely friends
D)
Little friends may prove to be great friends