How to Amaze an Emperor

How to Amaze an Emperor
By: Nick
There was once a lion who moaned pitifully because he had a rough thorn in his paw and it pained him immensely. He went to the humble shepherd. He herded sheep in Rome for King Nero. The lion slowly limped up to the shepherd and lay down, still whining. The shepherd thoroughly searched the lion and when he found the barbed thorn, he yanked it out of his paw to cause less pain. The lion bowed his head in humble thanks and walked of onto the forest.
A few months later, the king needed lions to brutally mistreat for his lion pit. His loyal subjects went out and caught the same lion who’d had the pointed thorn stuck in his paw long ago. While this was happening, the shepherd, because he was innocently arrested, was sent to the lions. The lion was starved and mistreated, so as to make him angrier. The shepherd was on his knees praying for a miracle. The pudgy jailer than threw him in.
The lion angrily charged at the shepherd, drooling and foaming at the mouth. The lion, who chased the shepherd all around was about to take a bite out of him but stopped. He recognized the shepherd as the one who had pulled out the thorn. Because the lion laid his shaggy head on the shepherd’s lap, it flabbergasted of everyone. Although king then ordered that the lion and the shepherd be released, the lion and the shepherd never forgot that day when they amazed and emperor.