THE LION AND THE MOUSE. by Ernset GrisetA LION, tired with the chase, lay sleeping at full length under a shady tree. Some Mice scrambling over him while he slept, awoke him. Laying his paw upon one of them, he was about to crush him, but the Mouse implored his mercy in such moving terms that he let him go. Some time after, the Lion was caught in a net laid by some hunters, and unable to free himself, made the forest resound with his roars. The Mouse whose life had been spared came, and with his little sharp teeth soon gnawed the ropes asunder, and set the Lion free. Pe150=Ch206, Ba107, Cax1.18, Laf2.11, Kry9.9, Jacobs11, Town, CS8, TMI B371.1, Type75 THE FATAL COURTSHIP. by Ernest GrisetIt is said that the mouse spoken of in the last Fable
was so emboldened by the offers of friendship made to him
by the Lion in return for his assistance, that he asked
for the hand of his daughter in marriage. The Lion,
amused at the request, good-humouredly told the Mouse he
should plead his own cause, and called the young Lioness
to come to him. She, bounding forward heedlessly, did not
see her little lover, who was running to meet her, and
one of her paws falling upon him, |