Reading Notes: British and Celtic, Reading A
1. Aesop's Fables: A Lion and a Man by Roger L'Estrange (1692).
An old lion had told a young lion that he should never fight with Man, for if he would, it would end badly. The young lion listened to this information but did not take it to heart. He grew up into a stronger lion and set forth to look for a Man to encounter.
He came upon a herd of oxen and asked them if they were Men. The oxen replied no, but that their master was a Man. So he left the oxen and came across a horse tied to a tree. He asked the horse the same question to which the horse replied no, but that the one who tied him was a Man.
The lion then encounters a fellow chopping blocks of wood and tells him he seems to be a Man. The Man confirms his statement, and then the lion asks if the Man would fight him. The Man accepts, and tells the lion to his feet on the chopping block. The lion does, and then the Man ends up chopping off his toes! He ran right back to his father, the older lion, and left his claws behind him.
When he gets back he tells his father if he had listened to what he said before, this would have never happened.
Bibliography:
Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists by Roger L'Estrange (1692).
An old lion had told a young lion that he should never fight with Man, for if he would, it would end badly. The young lion listened to this information but did not take it to heart. He grew up into a stronger lion and set forth to look for a Man to encounter.
He came upon a herd of oxen and asked them if they were Men. The oxen replied no, but that their master was a Man. So he left the oxen and came across a horse tied to a tree. He asked the horse the same question to which the horse replied no, but that the one who tied him was a Man.
The lion then encounters a fellow chopping blocks of wood and tells him he seems to be a Man. The Man confirms his statement, and then the lion asks if the Man would fight him. The Man accepts, and tells the lion to his feet on the chopping block. The lion does, and then the Man ends up chopping off his toes! He ran right back to his father, the older lion, and left his claws behind him.
When he gets back he tells his father if he had listened to what he said before, this would have never happened.
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| African Lion. Source: Wikimedia. |
Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists by Roger L'Estrange (1692).
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