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The Ass The Fox And The Lion By Aesop Fairy Tales

The Ass The Fox And The Lion The Ass The Fox And The Lion An Ass and a Fox had become close comrades, and were constantly in each other's company. While the Ass cropped a fresh bit of greens, the Fox would devour a chicken from the neighboring farmyard or a bit of cheese filched from the dairy. One day the pair unexpectedly met a Lion. The Ass was very much frightened, but the Fox calmed his fears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyNAOSFcJ2Y "I will talk to him," he said. So the Fox walked boldly up to the Lion. "Your highness," he said in ...

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6 thoughts on “The Ass The Fox And The Lion By Aesop Fairy Tales”

  1. Hello d.c Hariri what does upon means?

    • Hi dear Soroosh,
      Feast on / feast upon means to choose something as food and eat it while enjoying it a lot. For example, the lion feasted upon / on the ass = the lion started to eat the ass with so much pleasure.

  2. The central theme of this short story is that never be a betrayer, especially to your friends, or you will face the consequences.

    • That’s right. It’s all about negative karma based on cause-and-effect relationship, which tells us that benevolence and malevolence will respectively result in positivity and negativity materialized in our own lives.

  3. Hello Dr.Hariri, I have a question. What does sallied out here mean? ( They sallied out to forage for food together.)

    • Hi Armaghan,
      They sallied out to forage for food together” = they ventured out / went out to look for food
      sally out = venture out, go out
      to forage = to hunt, look for

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