The Sick Lion

Lion had come end days and lay sick unto death mouth cave, gasping for breath The animals, his subjects, came round him and drew nearer as he grew more and more helpless saw him point of death they thought to themselves: `Now time off old grudges ' So the Boar came up and drove at him tusks; then Bull gored him horns; still the Lion lay helpless before them: so the Ass, feeling quite safe from danger, came up, and turning his tail Lion kicked up his heels into his face ` double death,' growled the Lion