Æsop. (Sixth century B.C.) Fables.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| The Wolf and the Lamb |
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| ONCE upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just beginning to drink a little lower down. “There’s my supper,” thought he, “if only I can find some excuse to seize it.” Then he called out to the Lamb, “How dare you muddle the water from which I am drinking?” | 1 |
| “Nay, master, nay,” said Lambikin; “if the water be muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me.” | 2 |
| “Well, then,” said the Wolf, “why did you call me bad names this time last year?” | 3 |
| “That cannot be,” said the Lamb; “I am only six months old.” | 4 |
“I don’t care,” snarled the Wolf; “if it was not you it was your father;” and with that he rushed upon the poor little Lamb and—| | WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA— |
ate her all up. But before she died she gasped out—
| | “ANY EXCUSE WILL SERVE A TYRANT.” |
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