[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

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[Aesop's-Fables] The Cock and the Pearl

A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw. 'Ho! ho!' quoth he,'that's for me,' and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard? 'You may be a treasure,' quoth Master Cock, 'to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls.'
Precious things are for those that can prize them.

 

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If you can find something that is variable for others, you will be prized to them.

Just like this cock.

In the world, people usually earn much momey by find out Pearl.

Who is a winner who can root out the pearl from beneath the straw.

A lot of people can not find it out, until others successful.

Just like the Master Cock.

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cock : an adult male chicken [= rooster BrE; ↪ hen]

pearl : a small round white object that forms inside an oyster, and is a valuable jewel

oyster : a type of shellfish that can be eaten cooked or uncooked, and that produces a jewel called a pearl

          the world is your oyster used to tell someone that they can achieve whatever they want

strut : to walk proudly with your head high and your chest pushed forwards, showing that you think you are important

hen : an adult female chicken

espy : to suddenly see someone or something [= spy]

amid : among or surrounded by things

straw : the dried stems of wheat or similar plants that animals sleep on, and that are used for making things such as baskets, hats etc

stem : the long thin part of a plant, from which leaves, flowers, or fruit grow [= stalk]

quoth : quoth I/he/she etc    a way of saying 'I said', 'he said' etc

root something out : to find something by searching for it

beneath : in or to a lower position than something, or directly under something [= underneath]

treasure : someone who is very useful or important to you

prize : to think that someone or something is very important or valuable

barley : a plant that produces a grain used for making food or alcohol

peck : an action in which a bird pecks someone or something with its beak

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