THE WOLF AND THE LAMB.
A wolf meeting a lamb astray from the fold resolved not to take him in cold bloody but to find some reason which should justify to the lamb himself his right to eat him. He thus addressed him : "Miscreant, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," said the lamb in a mournful voice, "I was not born then." " Then," said the wolf, " you feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." "Then," 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." On 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.
