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Once upon a time there was a beautiful jungle full of friendly animals. The animals were happy and they did not fight with each other.
One day, a mean, mighty lion moved into the jungle. The lion wanted to be king of the jungle and he was roaring very, very loud. The animals were angry and scared when they heard this.
They could no longer play in the beautiful jungle because if they did, the lion would eat them. The lion did not care who he ate when he was hungry. He just ate anybody that he saw. The jungle was not a beautiful place anymore.
The animals had no freedom, and they decided to do something about it. They held a meeting and wrote down everyone's name and put it in a bag. At lunchtime, Mr. Rabbit, who was the wisest animal, would pull a name out of the bag and that animal would go to the lion's throne and become his lunch! When they told the lion their plan (on a day he wasn't so hungry), he accepted it.
One day, Mr. Rabbit pulled his own name of the bag! Mr. Rabbit started to shake at first but then he got a great idea. He said goodbye to his friends and went off to the lion king's throne.
As he got closer, he started running very fast. When he got there, the mean lion was waiting for him. "Why are you running and panting so hard." the lion asked.
"Your majesty", puffed the rabbit, "I was on my way here, when I saw another big, mighty lion. He said that he was the strongest in the jungle and wanted to eat me. I started running away from him to come and tell you the news."
The lion became very angry when he heard that there was another big lion living in the jungle. "Show me where you saw him." said the angry lion. "I'm going to challenge him!"
"Follow me," said Mr. Rabbit and led the lion down to the end of a path where there was a well. He jumped up on the wall of the well and pointed down. “There he is.” said the rabbit, "That's where the other lion lives!"
The big, mean lion looked down, and sure enough he saw another lion at the bottom of the well looking up at him. Since he wasn't very smart, he didn't know that it was his own reflection in the water. "Hey! Who are you?" he shouted.
"Hey! Who are you?" replied the voice from the bottom of the well. This time the lion was sure that there was another lion down there who dared to answer him.
"Don't you ask me who I am!" shouted the lion.
"Don't you ask me who I am!" shouted back the voice from the well. Now the lion was ready for a big challenge. He took a couple of steps back, ran, and took a mighty leap down into the well.
When the lion realized his mistake and that he had been tricked, it was too late to climb out because the well was too deep.
Mr. Rabbit rushed back to the other animals and told them what had happened. They all began to sing and play and to celebrate the rabbit's cleverness. And after that day, they lived in peace and harmony in the jungle. But they only drank bottled water!
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