The Wicked Lion.

The Wicked Lion.
A lion became weak with old age. He couldn’t hunt for his prey. So he pretended to be sick and lay down in his den.

Then he asked for someone to come and clean his house. The beasts heard his request and though they didn’t feel much love for the lion, they pretended to be loyal and came to see him.

As they entered one by one, the lion made morsels of them and grew fat upon this diet.

The fox had stayed away suspecting that the old lion was faking. At last he came to ask after the health of king of the jungle standing at some distance from the lion’s cave. He asked ‘how are you, your majesty?’

‘Ah! My dear friend,’ said the lion. ‘Why do you stand so far away from me? I am rather deaf and can only hear you if you speak near my ear.’


‘May God give you long life,’ said the fox. ‘But excuse me, I see all the footsteps pointing towards your house but none going outwards. So farewell dear friend.’
I see all the footsteps pointing towards your house but none going outwards.

Wicked lion had laid in ground,
ate all the innocent beasts,
wise fox came,
saw the trap of lion,
said bye and escaped from him.

Questions.
Who pretended as sick?
Who came to clean lion’s house?
Why the fox didn’t enter to the lion’s cave?
Who behaved intelligently?

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