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THE TRAVELER AND THE LION.


him. Then taking a stick which he found among the rocks, he put on it his coat and his hat, so as to make them look like a man.

He then held the stick above the rock behind which he was hid.

Soon the Lion came creeping slyly along. The moment he saw the coat and the hat, he made a sudden spring at them. He bounded right over the place where the man lay, and falling down among the rocks, was killed!

The Traveler was saved, and ere long he reached his own home.