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    The Lion and The Beetle

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    Lion was vain and thought himself king of the jungle. He spent hours admiring his reflection and invited the other animals to admire his finery. However, when he demanded the tiny Beetle bow before him, the Beetle said it was already bowing. When Lion leaned in to look, his heavy robes caused him to lose balance and fall in the mud, to the laughter of the other animals.

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    Lion was vain and thought himself king of the jungle. He spent hours admiring his reflection and invited the other animals to admire his finery. However, when he demanded the tiny Beetle bow before him, the Beetle said it was already bowing. When Lion leaned in to look, his heavy robes caused him to lose balance and fall in the mud, to the laughter of the other animals.

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    Lion was vain and thought himself king of the jungle. He spent hours admiring his reflection and invited the other animals to admire his finery. However, when he demanded the tiny Beetle bow before him, the Beetle said it was already bowing. When Lion leaned in to look, his heavy robes caused him to lose balance and fall in the mud, to the laughter of the other animals.

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    Lion was very proud and very vain.

    He called
    himself the king of all the animals and he loved to
    stomp around the savannah, roaring and
    growling whenever he saw Giraffe or Hyena or
    Elephant or Gazelle or Ape, to show them that he
    was the most important animal in the jungle.

    "I am your king!" he roared. And all the other


    animals bowed to him.

    One day, Lion looked into the water of the lake


    and saw his reflection. "What a beautiful and
    noble creature I am," he thought. Lion posed in
    front of the glassy lake for hours, admiring
    himself. But he wanted to do more to prove to the
    other animals that he was their king.

    Lion put on his fancy robes, his jewelled crown, and all his gold and silver
    medals. His clothes were very heavy, but they made him look mighty and great.
    "I am your king!" he roared in delight. "I am your king!" Lion sent out a message
    to all his animal subjects, to Giraffe and Hyena and Elephant and Gazelle and
    Ape. He sent messages to all the animals living on the savannah or in the jungle,
    inviting them to a meeting in front of his palace, where they could admire him in
    all his finery.

    And so the Giraffe and the Hyena and the Elephant and the Gazelle and the Ape
    came to see Lion. And many more animals came as well, from the Zebra in his
    black-and-white coat to the tiny Beetle, who was so little that he had to walk on
    the side of the road so that the bigger animals would not step on him by mistake.

    "I am small. I am little. People look down and can't see me," sang the Beetle as
    he scurried through the tall grass beside the road. "I am small. I am little. But
    inside, I'm tall as a tree!"
    When the animals were assembled, there came a mighty trumpet blast from
    Elephant, and Lion came forth in all his splendour and all the animals bowed
    before him.

    "I am your king!" he roared. "I am your king!"

    Then Lion saw the tiny Beetle, standing alone by the side of the road. The Beetle
    was singing to himself as he watched the Lion.
    "I am small. I am little. People look down and can't see me," sang the Beetle, as
    Lion strutted before his subjects. "I am small. I am little. But inside, I'm tall as a
    tree!"

    Lion said to the Beetle: "You, Beetle, bow before me!"


    Beetle said: "Your Royal Majesty, I know that I am small, but if you look at me
    closely, you will see that I am making a bow!"

    Lion leaned over, peering down at the tiny Beetle. His great robes, his jewelled
    crown and his many medals made him so top-heavy that Lion swung as he
    loomed over the tiny Beetle. Then Lion lost his balance and he fell over! His royal
    crown went flying off, and Lion rolled into a ditch filled with muddy water.

    All the animals laughed and laughed when they saw the muddy Lion sprawled in
    the ditch. The wet Lion rushed away too. He was not so very mighty, after all.
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