Use the paragraph to answer the question. The poor horse was very melancholy, and wandered up and down in the world, seeking some little shelter from the cold wind and rain presently a fox mountain. What’s the matter, my friend he said he why do you hang down your head and look so lonely and will be gone I replied the horse, justice and arrows never dwell in one house. My master has forgotten all that I have done for him so many years and because I can no longer work he has turned me adrift and says unless I become stronger than a lion he will not take me back again. By chance can I have that he knows I have no now or you will not talk soon which idea is stated, explicitly in the text.
The idea that is explicitly stated in the text is that the horse's master has turned him adrift because he can no longer work, and unless he becomes stronger than a lion, he will not be taken back again.
