Aesop's Fable: The Sick Lion

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The Sick Lion

A Lion had come to the end of his days and lay sick unto death at the

mouth of his cave, gasping for breath. The animals, his subjects, came

round him and drew nearer as he grew more and more helpless. When they

saw him on the point of death they thought to themselves: " Now is the

time to pay off old grudges. " So the Boar came up and drove at him

with his tusks; then a Bull gored him with his horns; still the Lion

lay helpless before them: so the Ass, feeling quite safe from danger,

came up, and turning his tail to the Lion kicked up his heels into his

face. " This is a double death, " growled the Lion.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.