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Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back

โ€You don`t have to shoot me,โ€ says the young lion. โ€I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won`t move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows.โ€ But the hunter will not listen to reason, so what is there for a young lion to do? After eating up the hunter, Lafcadio takes the gun home and practices and practices until he becomes the world`s greatest sharpshooter. Now dressed in starched collars and fancy suits, and enjoying all the marshmallows he wants, Lafcadio is pampered and admired wherever he goes. But is a famous, successful, and admired lion a happy lion? Or is he a lion at all? Told and drawn with wit and gusto, Shel Silverstein`s modern fable speaks not only to children but to us all!