A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): an Ass dresses in a Lion’s skin and scares the other animals away, until his own loud bray gives him away to a laughing Fox.
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One sunny day, an Ass was walking through the forest. An Ass is a donkey, with long ears and a very loud voice. Clip, clop!
Under a tree, the Ass found something big and furry. It was a Lion's skin, the furry coat of a Lion! A hunter had left it in the forest.
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