100个儿童英语小故事: The Lion and the Fox Who were Afraid of the Mouse 狮子和狐狸谁害怕老鼠

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097 The Lion and the Fox Who were Afraid of the Mouse

The ray of the warm sunlight told us that it was spring. A lion was sleeping peacefully in the forest.

While the lion was fast asleep, a mouse went on top of the lion. The bold mouse played happily on top of the lion. "Yuppie! This is really fun." The mouse ran around thumping¹ and stomping² here and there.

The lion was not able to sleep with all the racket. The lion knew that there was someone on top of him. So, the lion made a surprise attack and rolled on the ground.

And the mouse fell over. When the lion saw the mouse he was relieved and said, "Whew! It was only a mouse."

However, far away a fox had seen the scene. The fox laughed mockingly to the lion and said, "You're as big as a mountain and you're afraid of the mouse. You're a coward!" The fox kept making fun of the Lion.

Finally the lion spoke³, "I wasn't afraid of the mouse. I was only shocked to find a bold enough animal not afraid to run around on top of a lion." When the fox heard this he quietly left.