ANDROCLUS & THE LION AND OTHER TALES BY JAMES BALDWIN
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
James Baldwin had a great talent for taking old stories and tales and retelling them in an entertaining way.
In this episode we bring you 1) Androclus The Lion- a story of a societal cast out who befriends a lion, 2) Bruce and The Spider- A Scottish king learns an important life's lesson from a spider, 3) Damon & Pythias- true friendship is a rare and valuable thing indeed, 4) Horatio At The Bridge- a story of how one man's courage inspired an entire city, 5) King John & The Abbot- King John becomes jealous of an Abbot who lives a grand lifestyle so he tells the Abbot he must answer three questions correctly or lose his head and all his property. A lowly shepherd provides a solution.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back to 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:33.8 | We have a collection of tales from the author James Baldwin today. |
| 0:38.1 | The first story is called Andricles and The Lion. In Rome, there was once a poor slave whose name was Androclus. |
| 0:47.0 | His master was a cruel man and so unkind to him that at last Androclus ran away. He hid himself in a wild wood for many days, |
| 0:56.2 | that there was no food to be found, and he grew so weak and sick that he thought he should die. |
| 1:02.0 | So one day he crept into a cave and lay down and soon he was fast asleep. |
| 1:07.6 | After a while a great noise woke him up. A lion had come into the cave and was roaring loudly. |
| 1:14.3 | Androclus was very much afraid, for he felt sure that the beast would kill him. |
| 1:19.5 | Soon, however, he saw that the lion was not angry, but that he limped as though his foot heard him. |
| 1:26.4 | Then Androclus grew so bold that he took hold of the lion's lame paw to see what was the matter. |
| 1:31.9 | The lion stood quite still and rubbed his head against the man's |
| 1:35.0 | shoulder. He seemed to say, I know that you will help me. |
| 1:40.8 | Andruclis lifted the paw from the ground and saw that it was a long sharp thorn which had been hurting the lion so much. |
| 1:47.0 | He took the end of the thorn in his fingers, then he gave a strong quick pole and out it came. The lion was full of joy. He jumped about like a dog and licked the hands and feet of his new friend. |
| 2:00.0 | Androclus was not at all afraid after this, and when the night came, he and the lion lay down and slept side by side. |
| 2:08.0 | For a long time, the lion brought food to Andrickless every day, and the two became such good |
| 2:14.7 | friends that Andrukla's found his new life a very happy one. |
| 2:19.5 | One day some soldiers who were passing through the wood found Andruklaclus in the cave. They knew who he was, and so took him back to Rome. |
| 2:27.0 | It was the law at that time that every slave who ran away from his master should be made to fight a hungry lion. So a fierce lion was shut up for a while without food and a time was set for the fight. |
| 2:39.0 | When the day came, thousands of people crowded to see the sport. |
| 2:44.1 | They went to such places at that time, very much as people nowadays go to see a circus show |
| 2:49.3 | or a game of baseball. The door opened and poor Andruclis was brought in. He was almost dead with fear, |
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