The Lion and the Mouse
A fable by Aesop
Aesop told this fable more than 2,500 years ago, and it has been retold ever since. Here it is again, every picture a portrait made with Fable in the Presence style.
In the heat of the day, a great lion lay asleep.
A little mouse, hurrying home, ran straight across his paw.
The lion woke, and caught her.
“Let me go,” she begged, “and one day I will repay you.”
He laughed, and let her go. What could a mouse ever do for a lion?
Days later, the lion was caught in a hunter’s net.
The mouse heard his roar, and gnawed until the rope gave.
The smallest creature in the forest had saved the king.
No kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Every picture in this story was made with Fable in the Presence style.