There once lived a clever lioness in the champak forest. She had four healthy and really adorable cubs. They were very young and their eyes hadn't still opened. They slept for most of the time and the only time they were awake was when their mother fed them. But if the mother was late even by a minute, they would wail so loudly so as to bring the whole cave down!

In the same forest, there lived another lion. He was old and feeble. His sight and hearing had become poor and many of his teeth and claws had also broken. This made him completely unable to go hunting for animals. The only food he therefore ate was fruits and leaves.

One day, the old lion was lying in the sun when his only friend, the sly monkey, came up to him munching a guava. "Do you want a bite?" he asked the lion. "I see that you've become very weak. Maybe you should eat some meat".

"But how will I go hunting? I can hardly run!" said the lion sadly.

"Don't you worry about that, my dear friend! There is a cave only a short distance from here. Yesterday I happened to pass by it. There are four fat cubs living there. You can kill those cubs and eat them", explained the monkey.

"But what about their mother? She will surely kill me if she sees me there!" said the old lion.