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The Lion & The Weasel |
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Please read this fable and tell use
what you think the moral is. |
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The fable is: |
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Some time ago there was fearless
Lion. He was experienced
and was liked by nearly all the kids who knew him. |
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He had learned a
lot being the team captain in all kinds of games against many different teams in
schoolyards from the Home Schoolyard to
Everywhere Else. |
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One day Lion was selected to be captain in
The Really Big Game.
The Really Big Game was going to be played on Lion's Home
Schoolyard. |
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Players and kids from
Everywhere Else and Home Schoolyard were going to watch
The Really Big Game. Many
kids would be present in the schoolyard and many,
many other kids
would watch The Really
Big Game over the Internet. |
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Lion planned
the strategy and knew tactics
that could win. But he
knew little of the opposing team. |
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The opposing team in
The Really Big Game was a gang of thugs who
disguised themselves in colorful team uniforms.
They looked very impressive. The leader of the
opposing team was a mean
weasel. His name Omnocon. Omnocon the
weasel was not experienced and not very
skilled. And he was kind of lazy. But he was very, very good
at telling lies and very, very good at cheating. He could often
get other nasty kids to play on his team. They
knew that he lied and cheated but they wanted to win. They did not care how
they won. |
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Many kids from
Everywhere Else knew that Omnocon's team was
full of players who
cheated whenever they played Anywhere and
Everywhere Else. The
Really Big Game on the Home Schoolyard would be very important. |
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The Really Big Game
day came and Omnocon told his team to use all kinds of dirty tricks,
lies, and lies to defeat Lion's team. Omnocon won The Really Big
Game. |
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But during the
months after The Really Big Game, Omnocon was not able to hold his
team together to beat other teams. That is because the only way he
could ever win was to use dirty tricks, lies, and cheat. |
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Over time, some of Omnocon's team members quit, some got caught and sent to
jail for cheating, and others left the game league
because they always lost except when they used dirty
tricks, lied, and cheated. |
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Eventually most kids
everywhere saw that Lion's team and Lion himself were
the real winners. |
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The kids all shouted for
Lion to be crowned the official winner of The Really Big
Game. |