. The talking beasts : a book of fable wisdom . e is now/ 9 4 THE TALKING BEASTS replied he, mightily offended that peopleshould have their ears open to any sort of foolery,and shut to words of truth and wisdom. The Wolf and the Lamb A HUNGRY Wolf one day saw a Lamb drink-ing at a stream, and wished to frame someplausible excuse for making him his prey. What do you mean by muddling the waterI am going to drink? fiercely said he to theLamb. Pray forgive me, meekly answered theLamb; I should be sorry in any way to displeaseyou, but as the stream runs from you towardme, you will see that such can
. The talking beasts : a book of fable wisdom . e is now/ 9 4 THE TALKING BEASTS replied he, mightily offended that peopleshould have their ears open to any sort of foolery,and shut to words of truth and wisdom. The Wolf and the Lamb A HUNGRY Wolf one day saw a Lamb drink-ing at a stream, and wished to frame someplausible excuse for making him his prey. What do you mean by muddling the waterI am going to drink? fiercely said he to theLamb. Pray forgive me, meekly answered theLamb; I should be sorry in any way to displeaseyou, but as the stream runs from you towardme, you will see that such cannot be the case. Thats all very well, said the Wolf; butyou know you spoke ill of me behind my backa year ago. Nay, believe me, replied the Lamb, Iwas not then born. It must have been your brother, then,5growled the Wolf. It cannot have been, for I never had any,answered the Lamb. I know it was one of your lot, rejoinedthe Wolf, so make no more such idle then seized the poor Lamb, carried himoff to the woods, and ate him, but before. « WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY MUDDLING THE WATER I AM GOINGTO DRINK? FIERCELY SAID HE TO THE LAMB THE FABLES OF ^SOP 5 the poor creature died he gasped out, feebly,Any excuse will serve a tyrant. sEsop and His Fellow Servants A MERCHANT, who was at one time ^Esopsmaster, on a certain occasion ordered all thingsto be made ready for an intended the burdens were divided among the Ser-vants, ^Esop asked that he might have the light-est. He was told to choose for himself, and hetook up the basket of bread. The other Servantslaughed, for that was the largest and heaviestof all the burdens. When dinner-time came, ^Esop, who had withsome difficulty sustained his load, was told todistribute an equal share all around. He did so,and this lightened his burden one half, and whensupper-time arrived he got rid of the rest. For the remainder of the journey he hadnothing but the empty basket to carry, and theother Servants, whose loads seemed to ge
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