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The Mouse and the Lion
In the hottest sun of the longest day
A lion lay down for a doze.
A little brown mouse pattered out to play.
He danced on his whiskery nose.
Pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat
He danced on his whiskery nose.
The lion awoke with a sneeze, "A-chooo!"
He picked up the mouse in his paw.
"And who may I venture to ask are you?"
He said with a terrible roar.
Grr, grrr, grrrr, grrrrr
He said with a terrible roar.
"I'll save your life if you'll let me go,"
The mouse's voice shook as he spoke.
The lion laughed loudly, "Oh ho ho ho!"
"I'll set you free for your joke."
"Oho, oho, ohohohoho
I'll set you free for you joke."
As chance would have it, the following week
The lion was caught in a net.
When all of a sudden he heard a squeak:
"Well met, noble lion, well met
Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak,
Well met, noble lion, well met."
The little mouse nibbled and gnawed and bit
Till the lion was finally free.
"It's nothing, dear lion, don't mention it:
I'm repaying your kindness to me
Nibbly, nibbly, nibbly, nibble,
Repaying your kindness to me."
"For one of the lessons which mice must learn
From their whiskery father and mother
Is the famous old saying that one good turn
Always deserves another.
Pit-a-pat, grr, ohoho, squeak!
Always deserves another."
Available Answers
- 1.
Make sentences of your own to explain each of the following:
- pattered out to play
- shook as he spoke
- as chance would have it
- set you free for your joke
- repaying your kindness
- 2.
Four different sounds have been repeated in the fifth line of every stanza. Write them down and say what each of these represents.
- 3.
If 'day' rhymes with 'play', what do the following rhyme with:
- doze __________
- a'choo __________
- go ___________
- spoke __________
- weak __________
- net __________
- bit __________
- learn ________
- mother _________
- 4.
"One good turn deserve another." Have you ever been repaid for any act of kindness you may have done or have you helped you helped anyone in need and been repaid? Write paragraph about it.
- 5.
Quote the line from the poem which suggests that it is summer.
- 6.
What had the mouse been doing which made the lion sneeze?
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