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 the other hand he feared the lion also, and thus thought himself in two-fold danger. The lion, seing the great faithfulness of Brunswik, fell on the ground and rested, for the dragon had greatly wounded it; while Brunswik so fought with the dragon, that he had hewn off six of its heads. Then the dragon became furiously enraged, and smote Brunswik even to the ground many times with its flame, so that he became faint and weary, and now defended himself with great difficulty. Seeing this, the lion bestirred himself, and tore it with great wrath into halves, and rent it into small pieces.

Brunswik, seeing so great power in the lion, began to be afraid of it, lest it should do the same to him. So he went away, desiring to escape from the lion. But the lion would not leave him, for whithersoever Brunswik turned himself, he always saw the lion behind him; and for some days he went on day and night, endeavouring to escape from the lion. And taking acorns and beechmast into his bosom, for other food there he had none, he climbed an exceedingly high tree, to see whether the lion would meanwhile go away any-