“How can I,” said the Lamb, humbly, “when I drink with the tips of my lips only? And, besides, the water runs from you to me, not from me to you.”
“Well, you called my father names a year ago,” said the Wolf, finding another reason.
“I was not born a year ago,” said the poor lamb.
“You may make ever so good excuses,” said the Wolf, finally; “I shall eat you all the same.”
This fable teaches that, when one has made up his mind to do wrong, he is not stopped by the best of reasons.
THE TRAVELERS AND THE BEAR
Two friends were walking along the road, when a Bear came suddenly upon them.
One of them got first to a tree, and climbed up into it and hid among the branches.