The Donkey in the Lion’s Skin

One day a donkey found a lion’s skin left by a hunter. He dressed himself in it and amused himself by rushing out of the trees to scare the animals who passed by. He laughed as they all ran away from him—fast! After a few times, he got so excited and pleased to see them all run that he opened his mouth and let out a loud sound—a donkey’s braying. A fox, who had run with the rest, stopped as soon as he heard the sound. He went up to the donkey. “If you had kept your mouth shut you might have frightened me, too. But you gave yourself away with that silly bray!”

A donkey found
1. a lion.
2. a hunter.
3. a lion's skin.
The donkey
1. put the skin on.
2. buried the skin.
3. ran away from the skin.
The donkey laughed when
1. the animals laughed with him.
2. he looked at himself.
3. the animals ran away from him.
He had so much fun that he got
1. tired.
2. hungry.
3. excited.
When he got excited he
1. lay down.
2. chased animals.
3. opened his mouth.
The sound that came out of his mouth was
1. braying like a donkey.
2. roaring like a lion.
3. barking like a dog.
The fox said that he was no longer tricked by him because of
1. his voice was not a lion voice.
2. the skin didn’t look real.
3. the skin falling off.
The lesson is
1. try to deceive people with outward appearance.
2. listening to what people says tells you more about them than outward appearance.
3. don’t ever talk to people.