The lion wanted a very fat lamb to eat, so he let Lambikin go on his way, but he said:
“Be sure to come back this way, Lambikin.”
Lambikin frolicked along on his teetery legs a little farther, when he suddenly saw a great vulture, with a huge bill, flying toward him.
“I will eat you, Lambikin,” said the vulture.
Now Lambikin was not ready to be eaten yet, so he said to the vulture:
“Lambikin goes to Grannikin,
Where fatter he will grow,
Then you may eat him so.”
And the vulture flew off, but he said to Lambikin as he went:
“Be sure to come back this way, Lambikin.”