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
supper-less, even though you refute every one of my imputations." The
tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
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