Aesop's Fables - The Wolf and the Lamb

The Wolf and the Lamb

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.