The Wolf and the Lamb

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