A wolf, seeing a lamb drinking water from a river, wanted to find a pretext for devouring him. He stood
higher up the stream
and accused the lamb of muddying the water so that he could not drink. The lamb said that he drank only with the tip of his tongue, and that inany case he was standing lower down the river, and could not possibly disturb the water
higher up. When this excuse failed him, the wolf said: 'well, last year you insulted my father.'You are good at finding answers,' said the wolf,' but what do you mean by taking up so much of the path where a am
walking? The lam, frightened at the wolf's angry tone and terrible aspect, told him, with all due submission, that he could not conceive how his walking on such a wide could occasion him any inconveniences. 'What!' exclaimed the wolf. seemingly in great anger and indignation. 'You are as impudent as your father who sieized me by the throat last year, and caused me to kept in a cage for three months.