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«   The story About the Lion. »

Characters:                                                                                                                          The storyteller. -Коля                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Little Lion.                                                                                                                               His mother.                                                                                                                  Monkey.                                                                                                                          Snake.                                                                                                                                 Owl.

Little Lion. Mother, tell me, please, who I am.                                                            Mother. You are the best animal because you are clever, strong, beautiful and fast. Little Lion. Oh, really? I will go for a walk and tell everybody that I am the best of all animals.                                                                                                              Storyteller. Little Lion goes for a walk and sees a monkey who has some small nuts in her hand.                                                                                                           Monkey. Who are you? Can you tell me who you are?                                                     Little Lion. Of course, I can. I am the best of all animals because I am strong, clever, beautiful and fast.                                                                                                         Monkey. Really? Now we′ll see how fast you are. Run away!                                              Storyteller. And the monkey threw some nuts in the lion. He didn′t expect that she would do it, he didn′t run away and the nuts hurt him.                                                                 Little Lion. Oh, you have hurt me!                                                                            Monkey. I thought that you were fast and that you would run away.                        Storyteller. Little Lion goes away and an hour later he sees a snake.                              Snake. Can you tell me who are you?                                                                           Little Lion. Of course, I can. I am the best of all animals because I am beautiful, strong, clever and fast.                                                                                                      Snake. Is that really so? Now we ′ll see how strong you are.                                       Storyteller. And then Snake bit Little Lion. He didn′t expect her to do it and he fell down.                                                                                                                           Little Lion. Oh! Why did you bite me? My leg is hurt!                                                           Snake. But you said that you were strong and I thought that you would fight with me.                                                                                                                             Storyteller. Little Lion goes away and sees a wise Owl who is sitting in the tree.  Owl. Who are you, dear child?                                                                                            Little Lion. I am the best of all animals. I am strong, beautiful, fast and clever. But Monkey and Snake hurt me when I said it.                                                                        Owl. They did it because they didn′t like your words. Never say that you are the best animal, because there are many animals who are stronger, faster, cleverer and more beautiful than you.                                                                                                    Little Lion. Thank you, dear Mr. Owl. I haven’t thought that my words were wrong. I will never say them again.                                                                               Storyteller. Since that time Little Lion has never said that he was the best. He did everything to help weak animals and when he was an old respectable lion everybody agreed that he was the fastest, the strongest, the cleverest, the most beautiful and the best animal in the forest.