Then the bridegroom took her to his own home , where they lived happy for ever after . The Wounded Lion Cuentos Populars Catalans . There was once a girl so poor that she had nothing to live on , and wandered about the world asking for charity . One day she arrived at a thatched cottage , and inquired if they could give her any work . The farmer said he wanted a cowherd , as his own had left him , and if the girl liked the place she might take it . So she became a cowherd . One morning she was driving her cows through the meadows when she heard near by a loud groan that almost sounded human . She hastened to the spot from which the noise came , and found it proceeded from a lion who lay stretched upon the ground . You can guess how frightened she was ! But the lion seemed in such pain that she was sorry for him , and drew nearer and nearer till she saw he had a large thorn in one foot . She pulled out the thorn and bound up the place , and the lion was grateful , and licked her hand by way of thanks with his big rough tongue . When the girl had finished she went back to find the cows , but they had gone , and though she hunted everywhere she never found them ; and she had to return home and confess to her master , who scolded her bitterly , and afterwards beat her . Then he said , ` Now you will have to look after the asses . ' So every day she had to take the asses to the woods to feed , until one morning , exactly a year after she had found the lion , she heard a groan which sounded quite human . She went straight to the place from which the noise came , and , to her great surprise , beheld the same lion stretched on the ground with a deep wound across his face . This time she was not afraid at all , and ran towards him , washing the wound and laying soothing herbs upon it ; and when she had bound it up the lion thanked her in the same manner as before . After that she returned to her flock , but they were nowhere to be seen . She searched here and she searched there , but they had vanished completely ! Then she had to go home and confess to her master , who first scolded her and afterwards beat her . ` Now go , ' he ended , ` and look after the pigs ! '
So the next day she took out the pigs , and found them such good feeding grounds XXXXX they grew fatter every day .
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