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A few days later, Don Quixote saw a cart carrying a cage with two fierce lions that an African general was
sending to the king of Spain. But Don Quixote thought the lions were being sent to him! With a half
smile he said, “Little lions have come to challenge me?” And to the lionkeeper he shouted, “Get down, and
open the cage and release those beasts. I’ll show them who Don Quixote de La Mancha is, in spite of the
enchanters who have sent them to me.”
“Look, Señor,” said Sancho, “there’s no enchantment here. I saw the claw of a lion through the bars of
the cage, and I can tell by the size of the claw that the lion itself must be bigger than a mountain.”
“Fear, at least,” responded Don Quixote, “will have made it seem larger than half the world. Stand back,
Sancho, and leave me alone to fight the lions.”
The lion keeper opened the door of the cage. The enormous lion opened his mouth wide and yawned,
then looked around but had no interest in leaving the cage. Don Quixote decided that the lion was just
plain afraid of him, and everyone declared him to be the victor.
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