On a high and craggy mountain, there lived a fierce lion. He was very proud of his good looks and his handsome mane. But every day, when he was asleep, a little mouse that lived in a hole in his den, crept out and nibbled his mane. In the morning he found his mane looking tattered and ragged. This went on day after day till the lion was really irritated. He tried all kinds of tricks to catch the mouse and kill it, but he failed. He was getting more and more angry. ‘I am a lion and can kill large animals,’ he thought, ‘And this silly little mouse is making my life miserable and I am unable to catch him! What should I do?’ Then he heard some people talking in the village that they kept cats to catch mice.
The Lion’s Mane
