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and accepted his fate.



         When Androclus got back, he




         was sent to a prison where he got



         tortured for several days. The young



         man remembered the good times he




         had with the lion to cheer himself  up



         and hoped that the soldiers wouldn’t



         go back again to the cave. He knew


 were alerted that a slave had escaped   that if  they did, they would take his




 near this area, so they thought it was   best friend and make him fight in the



 Androclus. The soldiers followed the   the colosseum.



 footsteps and entered the cave. The   One night, when all the soldiers




 young slave had no other place to   were sleeping except for one,



 escape, so he dropped to the ground   Androclus said, “Did you know there
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