Lion And Slave

Lion and Slave

Once upon a time, one slave escaped from someone and took shelter in the jungle. When he was wandering around, he saw a lion which groans of suffering. Before, he is scared and wanted to escape there. But he saw the lion which is not moving at all; also lion looked at him with pleading eyes. Lion reached its bleeding paw to him. When slave looked at paw carefully, he saw a big thorn which is stabbed to paw. He removed the thorn and cured bruise from its paw then he wrapped it by a piece of cloth which is teared off from his cloth.
Relieved lion stood up and licked the slave’s hands. Then they went to the lions cave together. It hunted prey every day and carried to cave for helping slave.
Hunters, who came from the jungle, caught both of them. Finally hunters left them in to two different cages and did not feed them for several days .The lion was so hungry and angry. On the other hand, king was ready to open the cages and lions run to slave but lions did not attack to the slave. When the lion was coming to slave everyone was shocked to lion’s behavior. The king called to slave then listened whole story from him. The king, who affected about the story, wanted to forgive him and let lion to go back to the jungle.

Aesop manqué