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Braima Moiwai, The Lion Story,page 12 <br /> For the next three weeks, the animals took turns cooking for Old Lion. <br /> They even added a gravy that tasted like meat to the dishes and Har-gbe <br /> served them to him on time. <br /> For a while, they experienced perfect peace in Lion's Kingdom. The <br /> children could play outside and walk around freely. <br /> But one day Old Lion wrinkled his huge brow at little Har-gbe. <br /> "I don't know what you all have been feeding me," he said, "but whatever it <br /> is, I don't care for it any more. From now on, I want real meat, red meat." <br /> She could feel his breath, hot on her face, when he said that. "But ... <br /> but how would we do that?" she stammered. <br /> "Every day, one of you needs to come here so I can eat you." <br /> She felt a shiver pass through her and ran back to tell the others. <br />