The Tick and the Lion
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Peter
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2018
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This story is a variation of "The Lion and the Mosquito." This version starts with the boasting of a proud tick. He carries it out by maddening a lion and then exulting publicly. This version loosens the connection between the tick's triumphing over the lion and his falling fatally into a spider's web: "One night the tick who was still jumping up and down joyfully did not see a spider's web behind him." The stated moral is "One who is proud of himself will never be a true winner." The moral page has a standard framework throughout this Series #7, with insects at the corners and a child in the center. There are problems in the editing of this story, particularly with punctuating quotations. The first sentence also has an unusual expression: "There was a tick who thought that he was the mightiest and quickest other animal." The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink. The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book; it is repeated three times. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover. The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".
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Reading Support Foundation: Greenlife Printing
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12075 (Access ID)