The Wolf and the Lamb
WOLF, meeting with a Lamb wide from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find several plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus self addressed him:
"Sirrah, last year you grossly affronted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then aforesaid the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, nice sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Once again aforesaid the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I ne er yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is several food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf appropriated him and ate him up, saying,
"Well! I won't remain supperless, even as although you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant wish always