The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5 · page 21 2101‘One day as she was tasting quite a new kind of grass and wondering if it was as good as what she had had for dinner the day before, a hare happened to pass by.102‘“Well, that is a fat creature,” thought she, and turned out of her path to tell the news to a lion who was a friend of hers.103Now the lion had been very ill, and was not strong enough to go hunting for himself, and when the hare came and told him that a very fat donkey was to be found only a few hundred yards off, tears of disappointment and weakness filled his eyes.104‘“What is the good of telling me that?” he asked, in a weepy voice; “you know I cannot even walk as far as that palm.”105‘“Never mind,” answered the hare briskly.106“If you can’t go to your dinner your dinner shall come to you,” and nodding a farewell to the lion she went back to the donkey.1 2← previousThe Lilac Fairy Book, part 4next →The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6↑ back to The Lilac Fairy BookThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/page/2/