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Aesop's Fables
A
KING
, whose only son was fond of
martial exercises
, had a
dream
in which he was warned that his son would be killed by a
lion
. Afraid the dream should prove true, he built for his son a pleasant
palace
and
adorned
its walls for his amusement with all kinds of
life-sized
animals, among which was the picture of a lion. When the young
Prince
saw this, his
grief
at being thus confined burst out
afresh
, and, standing near the lion, he said: "O you most
detestable
of animals! through a
lying
dream of my father's, which he saw in his sleep, I am shut up on your account in this palace
as if I had been a girl
: what shall I now do to you?' With these words he stretched out his hands toward a
thorn-tree
, meaning to cut a stick from its branches so that he might beat the lion. But one of the tree's prickles
pierced
his finger and caused great pain and
inflammation
, so that the young Prince fell down in a
fainting fit
. A violent fever suddenly set in, from which he died not many days later. We had better
bear our troubles bravely
than try to
escape
them.
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