The farmer and the lion
a lion entered one day into a farmyard, and the farmer, wishing to catch him, shut the gate. when the lion
found that he could not get out, he began at once to attack the sheep and then the cattle. the farmer, arraid to
himself, opened the gate and the lion ran off as fast as he could. his wife, who had observed it all, when she
saw her husband in great trouble at the loss of his cattle, cried out; "you are rightly served; for what could have
made you wish to detain a creature, whom, if you saw at a distance, you would wish further off?
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