![]() ![]() Of the lyon / & of the pastour or herdman (To find the book click on the Catalogue.4614 The Lion and the Shepherd Aesop Caxton's translation (1484) Friday’s Leading from the Middle Library: Bermuda College Library. If I can’t be there, my book can be, virtually. *Source: AESOP’S FABLES By Aesop Translated by George Fyler Townsend (probably from this edition): “Three hundred and fifty Aesop’s fables”. Note: This story is also known as “Androcles and the Lion” and was made into a film starring the beefy Victor Mature based on the G.B. Helping a man on crutches in a drenching rain cross a busy intersection is kindness the young woman I saw doing this did so because she felt something, she knew intuitively what to do – it is our innate Golden Rule, if we let it be. Our helping a parent with a pram down a subway staircase likely has no reciprocal action beyond a heartfelt thank you. A reciprocated kindness is nice, but it cannot be anticipated. While the lion does pay back, acts of kindness are not Newton’s Third Law about reciprocating actions. He simply helps - one being helping another. The shepherd, selflessly, helps the lion, but he is not motivated by personal gain. I’d say this story of the good shepherd shows how kindness can pay unexpected dividends. One moralist has it: “When a man acts righteously, he can never be defeated by the punishments inflicted on him by his enemies.” THE LION AND THE SHEPHERD FREEThe King, as soon as he heard the tale, ordered the Lion to be set free again in the forest, and the Shepherd to be pardoned and restored to his friends.” But when the Lion was released from his cage, he recognized the Shepherd as the man who healed him, and instead of attacking him, approached and placed his foot upon his lap. ![]() Some time after, the Shepherd, being imprisoned on a false accusation, was condemned "to be cast to the Lions" as the punishment for his imputed crime. Soon afterward he came up to a Shepherd and fawned upon him, wagging his tail as if to say, ‘I am a suppliant, and seek your aid.’ The Shepherd boldly examined the beast, discovered the thorn, and placing his paw upon his lap, pulled it out thus relieved of his pain, the Lion returned into the forest. ![]() ![]() “A LION, roaming through a forest, trod upon a thorn. ![]()
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