Extra Credit Reading: Rouse. Giant Crab

For this last extra credit reading I read from a group of stories by Rouse. I particularly enjoyed one story called "The Lion and the Boar." This story begins with a lion drinking from a pond and he sees a boar drinking on the other side of the pond. Since the lion had just eaten, he wasn't hungry but still didn't want to scare the boar away so that he could come back later and eat him. As the lion snuck away, the boar saw him and took that to mean that the lion was scared of him. With a big ego, the hog challenged the lion to a fight. The boar went back to his home and told the other boars that he was going to kill a lion. they all laughed and informed him of a lions massive power and told him their is no way he would win. An old wise boar told the foolish boar to roll in mud before the fight because lions are very clean and the lion wouldn't fight him if he was dirty. He did this and when it came time to fight, the lion smelled him and told him he would not fight because he was too dirty. The boar returned to town and bragged of his victory. The other boars decided they would still run to a new home because, even though the boar won the fight, there was still a lion nearby.

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