A lion issued out of his family's den in search of food, slipped by chance into a quagmire and was raising a loud alarm. A kindly fox duly helped the lion to clamber out, by laboriously pushing many pieces of huge dead-wood into the quagmire.
Consequently, a great friendship developed between the two and their families began to dwell in the royal den.
The fox used to help the lion in the hunt as a look out. The magnanimous lion was allowing the fox and his family to share food with his own's.
Naturally, a great camaradarie developed between the children of both the families.
Hoever, the haughty lioness started to discourage her children from mixing with those of the vixen.
"Yours is a lowly family, while ours is a royal dynasty. And hence is the need to groom the children apart," explained condescendingly the proud lioness to the hurt vixen.
And the matter duly escalated to their husbands. The aggrieved fox conveyed his determination to shift his family away from the royal den.
The angered lion thereupon headed straight to the lioness in the den.
"You fool, — who talks of royal dynasties —, where were you when your own husband was sinking in that quagmire?
Would I have been alive today — as the king of the forest — but for the effort undertaken at great risk, to his very life itself, by that humanitarian fox?
And I am now leaving you and your 'royal dynasty,"-------to live along with the fox's 'lowly family'!" roared the lion furiously at the lioness.
Thereupon the haughty lioness realised her own vacuous dignity and agreed to co-exist on terms of equality with the family of the great, friendly fox.
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