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When the lion was sure that the rats had gone, he dropped to the ground
and tried his best to puff out his chest as if he had not been frightened at
all. But the little sheep was not convinced by the lion’s bravado.

‘Why is it that you are so scared of rats?’ asked the little sheep.
‘They are slithery and slimy and dirty,’ said the lion.

‘That is not true,’ protested the sheep. ‘How can you know what they are
like if you have never spoken to them?’

The lion thought about this for a while and eventually admitted that he
had never spoken to the rats at all but had always been afraid of them.
‘You are right, little sheep,’ said the lion, ‘I decided that the rats were
slithery and slimy and dirty, just as I had decided that you were timid and
frightened, but it is not true. You are brave and strong, perhaps the bravest
and strongest animal in the jungle!’

The sheep thanked the lion for his kind words but admitted that this was

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