The Old Lion

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The Old Lion
        A LION, worn out with years and powerless from disease, lay on
        the ground at the point of death.  A Boar rushed upon him, and
        avenged with a stroke of his tusks a long-remembered injury.
        Shortly afterwards the Bull with his horns gored him as if he
        were an enemy.  When the Ass saw that the huge beast could be
        assailed with impunity, he let drive at his forehead with his
        heels.  The expiring Lion said, "I have reluctantly brooked the
        insults of the brave, but to be compelled to endure such
        treatment from thee, a disgrace to Nature, is indeed to die a
        double death."