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THE HORSE AND THE LION. 



Ax old Lion, finding that many of the beasts had 

 become too nimble for him, and that he could not 

 come at his prey so readily as before, craftily gave 

 out that he had long studied physic and surgery in 

 foreign C9untries, and that he could cure every kind 

 of disorder to which the beasts were liable. These 

 professions having been spread abroad, he hoped 

 to get many of the animals to come within his 

 clutches. The Horse seeing through the whole of 

 the scheme, was resolved to be even with him ; and 

 so humouring the thing as if he suspected nothing, 

 he feigned himself to be in great pain from a 

 wound in his foot, and limping up to the Lion, 

 he begged he would examine the part and admi- 

 nister relief. The Lion, though intent only upon 

 making a good meal of horse-flesh, begged the 

 Horse to hold up his foot that he might see it: this 



