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# The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/101/) — ‘One day as she was tasting quite a new kind of grass and wondering if it was as good as what she had had for dinner the day before, a hare happened to pass by.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/102/) — ‘“Well, that is a fat creature,” thought she, and turned out of her path to tell the news to a lion who was a friend of hers.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/103/) — Now the lion had been very ill, and was not strong enough to go hunting for himself, and when the hare came and told him that a very fat donkey was to be found only a few hundred yards off, tears of disappointment and weakness filled his eyes.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/104/) — ‘“What is the good of telling me that?” he asked, in a weepy voice; “you know I cannot even walk as far as that palm.”
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/105/) — ‘“Never mind,” answered the hare briskly.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/106/) — “If you can’t go to your dinner your dinner shall come to you,” and nodding a farewell to the lion she went back to the donkey.

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