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| Aesop's Fables |
| Translated by George Fyler Townsend |
| 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. |
| The Bat and the Weasels |
| A BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded |
| to be spared his life. The Weasel refused, saying that he was by |
| nature the enemy of all birds. The Bat assured him that he was |
| not a bird, but a mouse, and thus was set free. Shortly |
| afterwards the Bat again fell to the ground and was caught by |
| another Weasel, whom he likewise entreated not to eat him. The |
| Weasel said that he had a special hostility to mice. The Bat |
| assured him that he was not a mouse, but a bat, and thus a second |
| time escaped. |
| It is wise to turn circumstances to good account. |
| The Ass and the Grasshopper |
| AN ASS having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly |