Fabel The Sick Lion

Fable's Story - The Sick Lion

A Lion had come to the end of his days and lay sick unto
death at the mouth of his cave, gasping for breath. The ani-
mals, his subjects, came round him and drew nearer as he
grew more and more helpless. When they saw him on the
point of death they thought to themselves: ‘Now is the time
to pay off old grudges.’ So the Boar came up and drove at
him with his tusks; then a Bull gored him with his horns;
still the Lion lay helpless before them: so the Ass, feeling
quite safe from danger, came up, and turning his tail to
the Lion kicked up his heels into his face. ‘This is a double
death,’ growled the Lion.
Only cowards insult dying majesty.