Aesop’s Fable: Part One
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The old experienced Lion gave some
advice to his son, this piece of advice was that he should never contend with a
man. He says if you do, then you will be Worsted.
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The little lion listened to his father
and put the advice in the back of his mind, but never got to his heart. When he
grew up, he became very strong and vigor, which led him to looking for a man to
wrestle with.
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The grown lion approached a yoak of oxen
and asked, “Heark ya Friends, are you men?” The oxen responded by telling him
no, but their master was a man. This led him to asking a horse the same
question, but the horse said no and told him as did the oxen that his master
was a man.
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He continues to move along until he runs
into one that was cleaving of blocks, in which the lion asked if he was a man,
where the man told him that he was one.
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This prompted the lion to ask the man if
he dared fight the lion and the man agreed to fight the lion. The man tricked
the lion into sticking his foot into a gap, where it got caught and the man got
the better of him. The lion eventually got back and went straight to his
father. He had to tell his father that he did not follow his advice.
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The exert at the end is “Disobedience to Parents is against the Laws
of Nature and of Nations, Common Justice, Prudence and Good Manners; and the
Vengeance of Heaven, Sooner or Later, Treads upon the Heels on't.”
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