198.The Kingdom of the Lion
THE 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 a royal proclamation that all the birds and beasts were to gather before him. When they did, he drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the wolf and the lamb, the panther and the kid, the tiger and the stag, the dog and the hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity.
The hare said, “Oh, how I have longed to see this day, where the weak shall take their place by the side of the strong, and without being punished for it.” And after the hare said this, he ran for his life.
❖ There is a black sheep in every flock .
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