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007 - My Father Meets A Lion · My Fathers Dragon

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  Speaker 1: Chapter seven on My Father's Dragon. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Recording by Gregory Holdsworth. My Father's
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  Speaker 1: Dragon by Rude Style's Gannet, Chapter seven, My father meets
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  Speaker 1: a lion. My father waved goodbye to the rhinoceros, who
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  Speaker 1: was much too busy to notice, got a drink farther
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  Speaker 1: down the brook, and waded back to the trail. He
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  Speaker 1: hadn't gone very far when he heard an angry animal
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  Speaker 1: roaring dang blasted. I told you not to go blackberrying yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Won't you ever learn? What will your mother say? My
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  Speaker 1: father crept along and peered into a small clearing. Just ahead,
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  Speaker 1: a lion was prancing about, clawing at his mane, which
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  Speaker 1: was all snarled and full of BlackBerry twigs. The more
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  Speaker 1: he clawed, the worship became, and the matter he grew,
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  Speaker 1: and the more he yelled at himself, because it was
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  Speaker 1: himself he was yelling at all the time. My father
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  Speaker 1: could see that the trail went on through the clearing,
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  Speaker 1: so he decided to crawl around the edge in the underbrush,
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  Speaker 1: and not to disturb the lion. He crawled and crawled,
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  Speaker 1: and the yelling grew louder, and louder. He was just
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  Speaker 1: about to reach the trail at the other side. The
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  Speaker 1: yelling suddenly stopped. My father looked around and saw the
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  Speaker 1: lion glaring at him. The lion charged and skiddy to
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  Speaker 1: a stop a few inches away. Who are you, the
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  Speaker 1: lion yelled at my father. My name is Elmer Elevator.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you think you're going? I'm going, Hume, said
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  Speaker 1: my father. Yes, we you, thinks of the lion. Ordinarily
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  Speaker 1: i'd see give you for afternoon tea, but I happen
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  Speaker 1: to be upset enough and hungry enough to eat you
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  Speaker 1: right now. And he picked up my father by his
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  Speaker 1: front paws to feel how fat he was. My father said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: please lie before you eat me. Tell me why you
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  Speaker 1: are so particularly upset today. It's more mane said the lion,
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  Speaker 1: as he was figuring how many bites a little boy
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  Speaker 1: would make? You see what a dreadful messages. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't seem to be able to do anything about it.
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  Speaker 1: My mother's coming over on the drugon this afternoon, and
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  Speaker 1: if she sees me this way, I'm Fridge'll stop my allowance.
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  Speaker 1: She can't stand messy mans. But I'm gonna eat you now,
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  Speaker 1: so it won't make any difference to you. Oh wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, said my father, and I'll give you just
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  Speaker 1: the things you need to make your mane all tidy
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  Speaker 1: and beautiful. I have them here on my back. You do,
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  Speaker 1: said the lion. Well give it to me, and perhaps
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  Speaker 1: I'll save you for afternoon tea after all, and he
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  Speaker 1: put my father down on the ground. My father opened
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  Speaker 1: the pack and took out the comb and the brush
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  Speaker 1: and the seven hair ribbons of different colors. Look, he said,
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  Speaker 1: I'll show you what to do on your fore log
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  Speaker 1: where you can watch me. First you brush a while,
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  Speaker 1: then you comb, Then you brush again until all the
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  Speaker 1: twigs and snarls are gone. Then you divide it up
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  Speaker 1: in three and braid it like this and tie a
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  Speaker 1: ribbon around the end. As my father was doing this,
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  Speaker 1: the lion watched very carefully and began to look much happier.
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  Speaker 1: When my father tied the ribbon, he was all smiled.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's wonderful, really wonderful, said the lion. Let me
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  Speaker 1: have a comb and brush and see if I can
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  Speaker 1: do it. So my father gave him the comb and brush,
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  Speaker 1: and the lion began busily grooming his mate. As a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, he was so busy that he didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know when my father left. End of chapter seven,