Androcles, a fugitive Christian tailor, accompanied by his nagging wife, is on the run from his Roman persecutors.
While hiding in the forest he comes upon a wild lion who approaches him with a wounded paw.
His wife runs off.
Androcles sees that the cause of the animal's distress is a large thorn embedded in its paw, which he draws out while soothing the lion in baby language.
Sovereign Androcles and the lion, paperback/george bernard shaw
