Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — The Lion and the Monse. [ARTICLE]

The Lion and the Monse.

Texas Siftings. * - While a lion was taking his after-din-ner nap, some mice scrambled over him, much to his annoyance, and waking up suddenly he clapped his paw on one of them and would have destroyed him, but the little creature squeaked out: “Take one of your size, can’t you?” As there wasn’t any mouse of his size he couldn’t do it, but he allowed the mouse to escape as a tribute to its pluck. A t few days afterward the Mon got caught in the toils, not being accustomed to toil of any kind, and would have been killed had not the mouse, whose life he had spared, came and gnawed the ropes apart and let him free. Touched with gratitude, the lion requested the mouse to ask any favor he pleased and it should be granted. The mouse, who had high social aspirations and desired to be lionized, demanded the paw of the Ijon’s daughter in marriage. He consented, and as the mouse was leading his blushing bride to the altar she accidently stepped on him and he never squeal edafter.