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The lion and the lamb
THE LION AND THE LAMB.
Once upon a time there was a Little lion that was son of the King of the jungle, they were the most respected family in the kingdom, the king, was the most noble and kind lion that has ever ruled in the kingdom of “upandaway”, Everybody in the kingdom loved the lion king and the mother lion, but they didn’t felt the same way for their son, Max. He was a young lion, and he was the most selfish, immature, egocentric in the entire jungle. He was always being disrespectful with the other animals , he loved to show off everywhere he went, he used to spend a lot of money buying drinks for his other lion friends, and he was always humiliating the other animals that were near him. On the other side of the kingdom there was a little lamb called Saphiro. Saphiro was born in the hard working class of the lambs, but he was very noble and poor. He was the most loved lamb of the entire village, he was always helping other animals regardless of its kind. Saphiro used to work day and night to help his mother and his father, his mother was a very beautiful lamb and was a very wise women, he always told his son, Saphiro, that everything he did, he must do it with courage and honor. One day Saphiro and his father were working, when the lions came by, all the lambs started to run away, Saphiro and his father got left behind, Max, who was leading the hunt saw Saphiro’s father and took him away. Saphiro was left alone and very sad, but inside of him he knew that one day he would see his father again. Max took Saphiro’s father to his castle and made him work for him, Max was always abusing of him, making him work very long hours and he didn’t gave him enough food to stay healthy. On the last day of November, in a cold night where the air was freezing, a strange light came from the sky, suddenly all of the animals were looking at the sky when rocks started falling from the sky, everybody panicked and started going crazy. When Saphiro saw this, he found a spot were they’d be safe, at the top of the mountain “kokoki” there was a cavern that was high and hard enough to keep them safe from the rocks, they all started running towards the mountain, Max and his parents left the castle when suddenly a rock fell on The king and the Queen, when Max saw this he ran to his mother and she said this to the little lion: “Max be humble and love your others”. Max started running towards the mountain, when he was about to get to the cave, he saw this young lamb, trapped under a tree, he knew he had the ime to save both of them, but he chose not to, Saphiro saw his young friend trapped and went to save him, when he rescued the lamb they both got to the cave, they saw max climbing towards the cave when a rock fell down on him, all the animals were watching and all of them refused to help the lion, Saphiro saw the lion and he knew all the bad things that he had done to the animlas, but then he went out and saved the lion, he didn’t care all the things the lion had done, he could not leave the lion out there to die. So he grabbed the lion and pulled him up to the cave. When they were safe, the animals saw a lion kiss the lamb.
CLAUDETTE FLORES
CARLOS VÁZQUEZ
