18 The Wolf and the Lamb

The Wolf and the Lamb
While lapping water at the head of a running brook,a wolf noticed a stray lamb some distance down the stream. Once he made up his mind to attack her, he began thinking of a plausible excuse for making her his pey.
“ Scoundrel!",he cried, running up to her.“How
dare you muddle the water that I am drinking!
"Please forgive me, replied the lamb meekly,
I don't see how I could have done anything to the
water since it runs from you to me, not from me to you.
"Be that as it may, the wolf retorted, "but you
know it was only a year ago that you called me many bad names behind my back.
"Oh, sir, "said the lamb, " I wasn't even born a year
go.
"Well, " "the wolf asserted, "if it wasn't you, it was
your mother, and that's all the same to me. Anyway it's no use trying to argue me out of my supper.
And without another word, he fell upon the poor
helpless lamb and tore her to pieces.
A tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny
So it is useless for the innocent to seek justice through reasoning when the oppresor intends to be unjust.