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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 WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA .ate her all up. But before she died she gasped out .

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."

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2009-1-11 03:49 AM - hi t765y96jh3x7k9dc good luck
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2009-1-9 02:10 PM - hi t765y96jh3x7k9dc good luck
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2003-10-4 10:49 PM - theverdict
It is sad that every literature related website has the exact paragraph, word per word explaining the fobles writing about "the Wolf and the Lamb" Read it yourself and translate it, be a scholar!
2003-3-19 10:13 PM - Albert Martins
The above famous fable (by Aesopus and also by Fedrus) shows that nothing is new under the sun: that's exactly the same dirty trick the Americans are doing with Iraq and Saddam Hussein!
2003-3-19 10:06 PM -
My comment is that this fable perfectly applyes to the US government (i.e. the Jews behind it) and Saddam Hussein
2001-11-13 08:45 PM - Brianna
I feel sorry for the little lamb. He should have run away!!
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