A wolf, meeting a lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the lamb himself, his right to eat him.
He said to the lamb, “Last year you grossly insulted me.”
“Indeed,” bleated the lamb in a mournful voice, “I was not yet born.”
“You feed in my pasture,” said the wolf.
“No, good sir,” replied the lamb. “I have not yet tasted grass.”
Again the wolf said, “You drink from my well.”
“No,” exclaimed the lamb. “I have never yet drank water. My mother's milk is still both food and drink to me.
Upon that the wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, “Well! I won't remain supper-less, even though you refute every one of my imputations.”
The Moral:
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice when the oppressor intends to be unjust.
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