The Wolf and the Lamb 狼與小羊
WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold,resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify tothe Lamb the Wolf\'s right to eat him. He thus addressed him:\"Sirrah,last year you grossly insulted me.\" \"Indeed,\" bleated theLamb in a mournful tone of voice, \"I was not then born.\" Then saidthe Wolf , \"You feed in my pasture.\" \"No, good sir,\"replied the Lamb, \"I have not yet tasted grass.\" Again said theWolf, \"You drink of my well.\" \"No,\" exclaimed the Lamb,\"I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother\'s milk is both food anddrink to me.\" Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying,\"Well! I won\'t remain supperless, even though you refute every one of myimputations.\"
The tyrant will always find a pretext for histyranny.
一隻小羊在河邊喝水，狼見到後，便想找一個名正言順的藉口吃掉他。於是他跑到上 遊，惡狠狠地說小羊把河水攪渾濁了，使他喝不到清水。小羊回答說，他僅僅站在河邊喝 水，並且又在下游，根本不可能把上游的水攪渾。狼見此計不成，又說道：“我父親去年被你罵過。”小羊說，那時他還沒有出生。狼對他說：“不管你怎樣辯解，反正我不會放過你。”8
這說明，對惡人做任何正當的辯解也是無效的。
