[Aesop's-Fables] The Wolf and the Lamb

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 muddle the water from which I am drinking?’
‘Nay, 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,’ snarled the Wolf; ‘if it was not you it was your father;’

and with that he rushed upon the poor little Lamb and ate her all up. But before she died she gasped out.

‘Any excuse will serve a tyrant.’

 

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This story told us that don't talk to the stranger!

The stranger always stop you as possible as he can. If somebody wants to stop you, don't talk with him. If he talks continued, just run away.

Oh,  no.

The main topic of this story is ‘Any excuse will serve a tyrant.’

Tyrant just do what he wants to do. Nodody can stop him. Don't try to against him unless you are more powered than him.

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lamb : a young sheep

lap : if water laps something or laps against something such as the shore or a boat, it moves against it or hits it in small waves

spring : a place where water comes up naturally from the ground

supper : the meal that you have in the early evening [= dinner]

seize : to take hold of something suddenly and violently [= grab]

violently : with a lot of force in a way that is very difficult to control

how dare you : said to show that you are very angry and shocked about what someone has done or said

muddle : to put things in the wrong order

nay : used to say no

muddy : confused and not clear

snarl : if an animal snarls, it makes a low angry sound and shows its teeth [↪ growl]

rush : to move very quickly, especially because you need to be somewhere very soon [= hurry]

gasp : to breathe in suddenly in a way that can be heard, especially because you are surprised or in pain

tyrant : a ruler who has complete power and uses it in a cruel and unfair way