FABLES. 



IQI 



THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. 



ONE hot sultry day, a Wolf and a Lamb hap- 

 pened to come just at the same time, to quench 

 their thirst in the stream of a brook that fell 

 tumbling down the side of a rocky mountain. The 

 Wolf stood upon the higher ground, and the Lamb 

 at some distance below him. However, the Wolf, 

 having a mind to pick a quarrel with the Lamb, 

 asked him what he meant by disturbing the water, 

 and making it so muddy that he could not drink? 

 and, at the same time, demanded satisfaction. The 

 Lamb, frightened at this threatening charge, told 

 him, in a tone as mild as possible, that with humble 

 submission, he could not conceive how that could 

 be, since the water which he drank ran down from 

 the Wolf to him, and therefore could not be dis- 

 turbed so far up the stream. Be that as it may, 



