The Lazy Lion and the Clever Fox: An Aesop Fable

Title

en_US The Lazy Lion and the Clever Fox: An Aesop Fable

en_US Seven Fables from Aesop

en_US GEP6

Description

en_US Retold by Philip and Patricia Spensley

Creator

en_US Spensley, Philip See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Gray, John

Date

2017-05-15T20:33:58Z

en_US 2015-08

en_US 1972

Date Available

2017-05-15T20:33:58Z

Date Issued

en_US 1972

Abstract

en_US This version of the story has, as the title indicates, a lazy lion rather than an old lion. The lion asks a dog to be a messenger who will tell the animals to visit him. The fox objects immediately, and when other animals say that a sick lion cannot catch them, he answers, "I don't know about that." In this version, the fox goes along with the other animals but stays outside the lion's den. Does the story not lose something of its appeal when the fox sees not just footprints but victims who no longer come out of the den? When the lion gets up to greet the animals, the dog asks how he can get up so fast if he is sick. "Just seeing you has made me better." When they want to go, he asks them to stay for dinner: "For MY dinner!" After eating them all, he invites the fox to come in. "Where are the animals?" "Why don't you come in and see them?" The fox asks the lion to send out just one of the other animals. The lion answers after a time that none of the animals wants to come out. "I don't think any of them CAN come out" answers the fox. Simple two-color illustrations.

Identifier

en_US 11140 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/112983

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Gage Educational Publishing Ltd.

en_US Vancouver, Canada

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.S67Sev 1972 v.6 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole