Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside,
when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just beginning to
drink a little lower down.  "There's my supper," thought he, "if
only I can find some excuse to seize it."  Then he called out to
the Lamb, "How dare you muddle¹ the water from which I am
drinking?"

  "Nay², master, nay," said Lambikin; "if the water be muddy up
there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to
me."

  "Well, then," said the Wolf, "why did you call me bad names
this time last year?"

  "That cannot be," said the Lamb; "I am only six months old."

  "I don't care," snarled³ the Wolf; "if it was not you it was
your father;" and with that he rushed upon the poor little Lamb
and
.WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA
.ate her all up.  But before she died she gasped⁴ out


"Any excuse will serve a tyrant⁵."

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