“Lion, you are a big, yellow animal.”
“Who wrote that?” roared Yellow Lion. “I am no more of an animal than he is.”
Everybody knows that Yellow Lion is very proud, for he is the king of beasts. So Yellow Lion went out and sharpened his claws on the trunk of a tree and started to get revenge for the name that he had been called. He had not gone very far before he saw another piece of bark tacked up to a tree with one of Hedgehog’s quills. On it was written:
Little Monkey explains.
“Lions, take notice. The quill is mightier than the claw.”
Yellow Lion picked off the sign and shook it between his paws.
“The idea,” he said. “This is an insult. Just let me find out who wrote that and there will be an awful time in this jungle.”