X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,4280a9876f3b11b5,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public From: pixel8ed@netcom.com (Diane Wenner) Subject: [Pic/Story] N. Abesdrin "Lion & Mosquito" Date: 1996/09/21 Message-ID: X-Deja-AN: 185090814 sender: bertino@netcom9.netcom.com organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii This is another of the charming picture stories Nicolas Abesdrin translated from the French. From: abesdrin@JSP.UMontreal.CA Message-Id: <199609112045.QAA01488@spi61.jsp.umontreal.ca> Subject: My ascii stories To: pixel8ed@netcom.com Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:45:36 -0400 (EDT) Please note that I did none of the pictures inside; and in most cases, the text is not mine either... i merly put it all together. ,,, (o o) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-oOOo-(_)-oOOo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- THE LION AND THE MOSQUITO Once upon a time . . . a tiny mosquito started to buzz round a lion he met. "Go away!" grumbled the sleepy lion, smacking his own cheek in an attempt to drive the insect away. @|\@@ "Why should I? demanded the mosquito. "You're king of the - @@@@ jungle, not of the air! I'll fly wherever I want and land /7 @@@@ wherever I please." And so saying, he tickled the lion's / @@@@@@ ear. In the hope of crushing the insect, the \-' @@@@@@@@`-______________ lion boxed his own ears, but the mosquito -@@@@@@@@@ / \ slipped away from the now dazed lion. @/@@@@ / \ _______/ /_ _____| |__________- /,__________/ `-.___/,_____________----------_) "I don't feel it any more. Either it's \ / squashed or it's gone away, said the oVo lion to himself." But at that very moment, \___XXX___/ the irritating buzz began again, __XXXXX__ and the mosquito flew into the lion's nose. /__XXXXX__\ Wild with rage, the lion leapt to his hind / XXX \ legs and started to rain punches on his own V nose. But the insect, safe inside, refused to budge. With a swollen nose and watery eyes, the lion gave a terrific sneeze, blasting the mosquito out. Angry at being dislodged so abruptly, the mosquito returned to the attack: BUZZ . . . BUZZZ! . . . it whizzed round the lion's head. - - - - - -- - - - - - _ - - - - - - - - - =- - =- = - = - =- = _.----~~~~~~-----..__ = =- -=- - = = -=-- = - =#-= =-# - == ##= -__..------~~~~- .._ ~~-. #== -#- = =- ##=-= =#- - #===#==___.--.--~~~~ --~~~~---~ __ ~~----.__ ~~~~~~~---...._____#== =##= ##(~~~~_..----~ ~~--=< O >- .----. -< O >=--~~ .. .)#=#=##= ###~-..__..-- .. ___-----_...__-----___ _. ~-=___..-~######### ##==#===#==` _ .. ( " :_.}{._; " " ) _- '==#=##=====#=#== =#-==-== =# \ ~~- ` " " __###__ "" ' -~ .'==-=#===#- -=- #= -= == -= -= `-._ ~-. _`--~~~VvvvvVV~~---'_ ~.. _. #= = = ==# - == = -== - = - == -. `~##\( )/###~' . _.~ -=- = -= -=- - = - -= - - - - `.###\# { #/####.' _-~ - = - - - - = - - - - - -_ -#### ! #####- .. - - - - - - -._ ~.### } ###-~ ___.-~ Large and tough as the ~- \## / " ##.~ /~ At the sound of his lion was, he could not rid \ |### " ###' / terrible voice, all the forest himself of his tiny tormen- \`/\#######/\' ; creatures fled in fear, but ter. This made him angrier ~-.^^^^^^^ .-~ paying no heed to the exhausted still, and he roared fiercely. ~~~~~~~~ lion, the mosquito said triumphantly: "There you are, King of the jungle! Foiled by a tiny mosquito like me!" And highly delighted with his victory, off he buzzed. But he did not notice a spider's web hanging close by, and soon he was turning and twisting, trying to escape from the trap set by the spider. /\ \ / /\ "Bah! said the spider in disgust, as he //\\ .. //\\ ate it. Another tiny mosquito. Not much //\(( ))/\\ to get excited about, but better then / < `' > \ nothing. I was hoping for something more substential..." And that's what became of the mosquito that foiled the lion! THE END ,,, (o o) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-oOOo-(_)-oOOo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-