. Some of Aesop's fables : with modern instances shewn in designs by Randolph Caldecott . THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. A WOLF seeing a Lamb drinking at a brook, took it into his head that he would find some plausible excuse for eating him. So he drew near, and, standing higher up the stream, began to accuse him of disturbing the water and preventing him from drinking. The Lamb replied that he was only touching the water withthe tips of his lips ; and that, besides, seeing that he was standing THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. 59 down stream, he could not possibly be disturbing the water higherup. So the Wolf,
. Some of Aesop's fables : with modern instances shewn in designs by Randolph Caldecott . THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. A WOLF seeing a Lamb drinking at a brook, took it into his head that he would find some plausible excuse for eating him. So he drew near, and, standing higher up the stream, began to accuse him of disturbing the water and preventing him from drinking. The Lamb replied that he was only touching the water withthe tips of his lips ; and that, besides, seeing that he was standing THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. 59 down stream, he could not possibly be disturbing the water higherup. So the Wolf, having done no good by that accusation, said : Well, but last year you insulted my Father. The Lamb replyingthat at that time he was not born, the Wolf wound up by saying : However ready you may be with your answers, I shall none theless make a meal of
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