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    The Cozy Lion As Told by Queen Crosspatch
    The Cozy Lion As Told by Queen Crosspatch
    The Cozy Lion As Told by Queen Crosspatch
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    The Cozy Lion As Told by Queen Crosspatch

    By Harrison Cady and Frances Hodgson Burnett

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Cozy Lion As Told by Queen Crosspatch - Harrison Cady

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Cozy Lion, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Cozy Lion

             As Told by Queen Crosspatch

      Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

      Illustrator: Harrison Cady

      Release Date: March 18, 2013 [EBook #42366]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COZY LION ***

      Produced by Elaine Laizure from images generously made

      available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.

      Copyright, 1907, by

      THE CENTURY CO.

      Published October, 1907

      Printed in U. S. A.

      I AM very fond of this story of the Cozy Lion because I consider

      it a great credit to me. I reformed that Lion and taught him how

      to behave himself. The grown-up person who reads this story aloud

      to children MUST know how to Roar.

      THE COZY LION

      I SHALL never forget the scolding I gave him to begin with. One of the advantages of being a Fairy even quite a common one is that Lions can't bite you. A Fairy is too little and too light. If they snap at you it's easy to fly through their mouths, and even if they catch you, if you just get behind their teeth you can make them so uncomfortable that they will beg you to get out and leave them in peace.

      Of course it was all the Lion's fault that I scolded him. Lions ought to live far away from people. Nobody likes Lions roaming about—particularly where there are children. But this Lion said he wanted to get into Society, and that he was very fond of children— little fat ones between three and four. So instead of living on a desert, or in a deep forest or a jungle he took the large Cave on the Huge Green Hill, only a few miles from a village full of the fattest, rosiest little children you ever saw.

      He had only been living in the Cave a few days, but even in that short time the mothers and fathers had found out he was there, and everybody who could afford it had bought a gun and snatched it up even if they saw a donkey coming down the road, because they were afraid it might turn out to be a Lion. As for the mothers, they were nearly crazy with fright,

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