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Aesop’s Fables

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-9-The Kingdom of the LionTHE BEASTS of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither wrathful,cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be. During his reign he made aroyal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts, and drew upconditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and the Lamb, the Panther and theKid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peaceand amity. The Hare said, "Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weakshall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong." And after the Hare saidthis, he ran for his life.

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