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The Wolf and the Lamb
WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray
from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some
plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus
addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed,"
bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born."
Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied
the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You
drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water,
for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink
to me." Upon which the Wolf
seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even
though you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant will always
find a pretext for his tyranny.
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