The Wolf and the Lamb故事

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The Wolf and the Lamb故事
    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?"
    "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."
    "Well, then," said the Wolf, "why did you call me bad names
    this time last year?"
    "That cannot be," said the Lamb; "I am only six months old."
    "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."