The Story of the Lamb and the Wolf

The wolf came to the stream and saw the lamb drinking water there.

The wolf wanted to eat the lamb, but then he thought, "If I eat the lamb like this, if other animals see it, they will gossip about me. It's easy to gossip about me, I have to find a reasonable excuse to eat the lamb so that I can have a full meal without being gossiped about by other animals."

So the wolf deliberately found fault, saying, "Little thing, you have soiled the water I drink! What did you have in mind when you made it impossible for me to drink clean water?"

The lamb had never seen the wolf before, and did not know that the wolf was going to eat it. So he said to the wolf, "Mr. Wolf, this river belongs to everyone, not to you alone. Besides, how could I possibly dirty the water you drink? You stand upstream and I stand downstream. The water flows from you to me, not from me to you."

Seeing that this excuse would not work, the wolf changed to another. Said he, "Even so, you were always a bad fellow! I've heard from other animals that you've been saying bad things about me behind my back for the last year, and on that basis I could eat you!"

The lamb was even more anxious to hear this, and it cried out, "Ah! Mr. Wolf! How is that possible? I wasn't even born last year! And I have no grudge against you, so why should I scold you?"

Knowing that he could not defeat the lamb, the wolf said to the lamb, "Even though you are very good at defending yourself, I am going to eat you today!" With that, he lunged at the lamb.

The lamb cried out in desperation, "You sly, bad fellow! You make so many ridiculous excuses, but you just want to eat me up!"

But the wolf could no longer hear any of this, all he could think of was that he would finally have a full meal. The simple little sheep does not know that no matter how many excuses the wolf makes, its ultimate goal is to eat it as a meal, so we have to learn to protect ourselves and not to talk to strangers.

Source: From the ancient Greek Aesop's fables, "The Wolf and the Lamb".

Extended Information:

Background:

Background:

The Aesop's Fables, originally titled Aesop's Tales, were circulated in folklore and became a book in the 3rd century BC. From the point of view of the work, the time span is large, and the tendency of each piece is not exactly the same, it is presumed that it is not a one-man one-time work, it can be regarded as the collective creation of the ancient Greeks in a fairly long historical period. Aesop, may be one of the important authors.

"Aesop's Fables" is rumored to have been written by Aesop, the ancient Greek fable writer. From the actual situation of the book, the author of this work should not be only one person, it should be the collective creation of the ancient Greeks in a fairly long period of history.

With the passage of time, the content of the book is richer, and this work is added to the Indian, Atobe and Christian stories, which also forms the present more than three hundred and fifty. So, strictly speaking, this work should be a compilation of ancient fables.

But the significance of a story depends on the context, and this is a story about the use of animals to express the brutality of the powerful and the oppression of the weak. The story is philosophical, exposing the ugly faces of the rulers and the powerful, and y expressing the helplessness and powerlessness of the slaves in ancient Greece. The story is a philosophical one, exposing the ugly faces of the rulers and the powerful, and y expressing the helplessness and powerlessness of the slaves in ancient Greece.