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EXERCISE VII.
Write or repeat the Subjects of the italicized
Verbs, and the Objects of the italicized Verbs and
Prepositions, in the following Exercise: -
A lion, while quietly sleeping, was surrounded by some
mice. They began dancing round him, and at last' one
young mouse, bolder than * the rest,* jumped up on his
body and scampered across his face. The lion awoke
with a roar, and the mice ran away: but the young
mouse was stopped bIq the lion's* paw. "Spare me!"
cried she, "and I will never disturb you again." The
lion good-humoredly took his paw off her, and lay down
again. Some days afterwards, the lion was caught in a
net spread by some huntsmen. In vain 1 he roared and
struggled: lie found that his struggles only entangled him
more in the net, and he cried in despair, "I have no
chance of escaping." Just then, up came the little
mouse with a thousand brothers and sisters. To work
they fell, gnawing the net, and in ten minutes the lion
was released by the mice.
1 An Adverbial Phrase. See How to Tell, &c., page 79.