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The Lion said he was very sick, and begged him to come into the den to see him.

“So I would,” said the Fox, “but I notice that all the footprints point into the den, and none point out.”


DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT

I. DICK GOES TO LONDON

In the olden times there lived in the country, In England, a boy by the name of Dick Whittington.