Lion and the mouse in english story english fairy tales. The playful mouse came out of his hole and started climbing up and down the lion. The lion and the mouse fable bedtime stories for kids in. Running to one of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the lion was free. This illustrated ministorybook contains simple, ageappropriate text and lots of predictable language to provide a powerful step up to young readers at every levelfrom emergent to fluent. The lion caught him and was about to smash him when the little mouse spoke, sir, please let me go, and i will do you a good turn one day, for sparing my life. Please let me go, it cried, and one day i will repay you for your kindness. The little mouse ran up the lion s neck and slid down his back. A trap is something that you lay on the ground to catch an animal. The lion and the mouse readers theatre script by nick bilbrough narrator 1. The mouse, terrified, piteously entreated him to spare its life. There are also eastern variants of the story, all of which demonstrate mutual dependence regardless of size or status.
Before the lion can eat him for breakfast, the mouse begs for mercy. Use the information in the story to answer the questions below. The lion and the mouse story for android free download. The lion and the mouse is one of aesops fables, numbered 150 in the perry index. One day after a heavy meal, it was sleeping under a tree.
The mouse said dont worry lion, my teeth are very sharp and i will cut the net in no time and you will be free forever. Usually we become friends with people who are similar to us. Aesops fables the lion and the mouse a lion asleep in his lair was waked up by a mouse running over his face. Losing his temper, he seized it with his paw and was about to kill it. The lion and mouse english short story it was a hot day and the lion was taking rest after a long hunt. Kindness is the key theme of this play, based on an ancient greek fable by aesop. The mouse knew the voice and quickly found the lion struggling in the net.
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