Tale

 1 Lion  |                                 The Lion and the Crane~THE Bodhisatta
 2 Lion  |            Now it chanced that as a lion was eating meat a bone stuck
 3 Lion  |             fall, he got out of the lion's mouth, striking the stick
 4 Lion  |            settled on a branch. The lion gets well, and one day was
 5 Lion  |            from thee?"~In reply the Lion spoke the second verse:~"
 6 Lion  |          add: "Now at that time the lion was Devadatta the Traitor,
 7 Skin  |                      The Ass in the Lion's Skin~AT the same time,
 8 Skin  |             used to clothe him in a lion's skin, and turn him loose
 9 Skin  |          near him, taking him for a lion.~So one day the hawker stopped
10 Skin  |             he dressed the ass in a lion's skin, and turned him loose
11 Skin  |         First Verse:~"This is not a lion's roaring,~Nor a tiger's,
12 Skin  |             panther's;~Dressed in a lion's skin,~'Tis a wretched
13 Skin  |        broke; and, carrying off the lion's skin, went away. Then
14 Skin  |            might the ass,~Clad in a lion's skin,~Have fed on the
15 Demon |             on, fearless as a maned lion.~When he reached mid-forest
16 Demon |         Demon to himself: "Here's a lion of a man! A noble man! More
17 Demon |       saying:~"Young sir, you are a lion of a man! I will not eat
18 GeNote| incarnations. Thus the fable of the Lion and the Crane, which opens
19 GeNote|            thus: 'At that time, the Lion was Devadatta, and the Crane
20 StNote|                  Story Notes~I. THE LION AND THE CRANE.~Source. -
21 StNote|            the Midrashic version (" Lion and Egyptian Partridge "),
22 StNote|            The Hebrew form uses the lion, not the wolf, as the ingrate,
23 StNote|        remarked that the use of the lion in this and other Jatakas
24 StNote|             their great age, as the lion has become rarer and rarer
25 StNote|    collection that Richard Coeur de Lion got the story, and used
26 StNote|           Luard, ii. 413 - 6, how a lion and a serpent and a Venetian
27 StNote|         fortune, fifty talents. The lion brings his benefactor a
28 StNote|      folk-tales.~XX. THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN.~Source. - The Siha
29 StNote|           doubt that the Ass in the Lion's Skin is from India. As