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ON DREAMING . . .
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THE KING'S SON AND THE PAINTED LION 
 
  A King, whose only son was fond of martial exercises, had a 
dream in which he was warned that his son would be killed by a lion. 
Afraid the dream should prove true, he built for his son a pleasant 
palace and adorned its walls for his amusement with all kinds of 
life-sized animals, among which was the picture of a lion. When the 
young Prince saw this, his grief at being thus confined burst out 
afresh, and, standing near the lion, he said: 



     "O you most detestable of animals! through a lying dream 
     of my father's, which he saw in his sleep, I am shut up 
     on your account in this palace as if I had been a girl: 
     what shall I now do to you?" 
     
     
     
  With these words he stretched out his hands toward a thorn-tree, 
meaning to cut a stick from its branches so that he might beat the 
lion. But one of the tree's prickles pierced his finger and caused 
great pain and inflammation, so that the young Prince fell down in 
a fainting fit. A violent fever suddenly set in, from which -- 
he died not many days later. 
 
  "We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape 
them." -- AESOP  
                                       
            DREAMS: the eyes and mind of your soul!

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