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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."
Moral: The tyrant will always find a
pretext for his tyranny
The Wolf And The Lamb
Fable
A Fable
by
Aesop
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