Children Stories: The King of Jungle and The Little Mouse

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In the middle of the dense forest, there was a lion king. He was sleeping on a bottom of shady tree. There was a little mouse who was playing happily around the sleeping lion.

Then, the little mouse saw the sleeping lion and decided to play by cllimbing his back. He made a slide from lion's tail and he played there. Once a while he slided down from there and repeated that more and more. The mouse was so happy.

The lion felt so be disturbed until he waked up. He held the little mouse with a lot of anger and he wanted to eat him. The little mouse asked him to stop his action by crying in fear. He pleaded hopefully to the lion to didn`t make him as snack.

The little mouse pleaded and promised to the lion that he would never disturb again. The mouse also said, "One day. You will need my help". The king of jungle was affected by mouse's word. Then, he released the mouse and letting him away.

After few days, as usually, the king of jungle was sleeping in the afternoon. Suddenly, the hunters came and they wanted to catch him. They threw the net to him. He was catched into a net and roaring so loud. So that, everything int the forest could hear his roar.

Even, the mouse in the inside of jungle heared his very loud roar. Hearing that, the little mouse remembered that he ever be released and be given a pardon by the lion when he disturbed him that was sleeping in the afternoon. So, the mouse wanted to reply his goodness.

Without hesitation, the little mouse went quickly to see what was the truly happening. When arrived, what a shock the mouse. He saw the king of jungle was trapped inside a net. The mouse climbed the net and started to eat away it by his sharp tooth untill the lion was free.

In the end, the little mouse was success to reply lion's goodness with saving him from the net that was trapping him. At the moment, the king of jungle and the little mouse were be a bestfriend. They will help each other when one of them felt difficult.