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The Wolf & the Lamb. A stray Lamb stood drinking early one morning on the bank of a woodland stream. That very same morning a hungry Wolf came by farther up the stream, hunting for something to eat. He soon got his eyes on the Lamb.
The Wolf and the Lamb. Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born."
A wolf accuses a lamb of wrongdoing to justify eating him, despite the lamb's innocence. Once upon a time, a Wolf was drinking from a stream when he noticed a Lamb downstream also drinking from the same stream. The Wolf desired to eat the Lamb and searched for an excuse to do so.
The Lamb and The Wolf. A Lamb took refuge from a Wolf in a temple. The Wolf said the Lamb would be sacrificed there to which the Lamb said that would be better than eaten.
“The Wolf and the Lamb” Additional Information. Year Published: 1867. Language: English. Country of Origin: Greece. Source: Aesop (1867) Aesop's Fables. Readability: Flesch–Kincaid Level: 5.1. Word Count: 172. Genre: Fable. Keywords: traditional stories. Cite This. Share |. Downloads. Audio. Passage PDF. Student Activity. Back. Next.
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. A certain Wolf could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the Shepherds. But one night he found a sheep skin that had been cast aside and forgotten.
The Wolf and the Lamb. As a wolf was lapping at the head of a running brook, he spied a stray lamb paddling, at some distance, down the stream. Having made up his mind to seize her, he thought to himself how he might justify his violence.
