One Day, a mouse accidentally bumped into a sleeping lion's paw. The lion woke up and put his great big paw over the mouse.
The mouse said, “I’m sorry! Don’t hurt me!”
The lion picked up the mouse to eat him.
“Please forgive me!” the mouse cried. “I won’t forget it. I might be able to help you one day.”
The lion laughed at this. “How can a little mouse help a big lion?” he asked.
“But you have made me laugh, so I will let you go.”
He put the mouse down, and the mouse ran away.
Two weeks later, the mouse heard the lion from far away.
He ran to the sound and found the lion in a net. Some hunters had caught the large animal.
The mouse waited. When the hunters left to get their wagon, he quickly began biting the net.
Soon, the net broke and lion was free. The lion put the mouse on his back and ran into the forest.
When they stopped, the mouse said, “I told you I could help you one day.”
The lion said, “I’m sorry I doubted you. Now I realize there is greatness even in a small mouse.”

有一天，一隻老鼠不小心碰到一隻正有睡覺的獅子的腳掌。獅子醒了過來，用他巨大的腳掌壓著老鼠。
老鼠說：「對不起！不要傷害我。」
獅子把老鼠捉起來要吃他。
「請原諒我！」老鼠哀嚎著：「我不會忘記的，有一天我也許能夠幫上你的忙。」
獅子譏笑著問說：「一隻小老鼠能幫大獅子什麼忙啊？」
「不過你逗笑我了，所以我放你走。」
他放下老鼠，然後老鼠跑走了。
兩個星期後，老鼠聽到遠處獅子的聲音。
他跑向聲音來源，發現獅子受困網中。一些獵人捉了這隻巨大的動物。
老鼠等待著，當獵人們離開去開運貨馬車時，他快速地開始咬網子。
很快地，網子破了，獅子得到自由了。獅子把老鼠放在他背上，然後跑進森林裡。
當他們停下來後，老鼠說：「我早說過有一天我可以幫你的。」
獅子說「很抱歉我那時不相信你。現在我了解即使一隻小老鼠也有他偉大之處。」