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Le Loup et l’Agneau

The Wolf and the Lamb

1Le loup au bord de l'eauThe wolf by the waterFree2m

A lamb drinks in a clear stream. A hungry wolf comes by, looking for trouble, and accuses him of muddying his water. The lamb answers politely that he drinks twenty steps downstream and cannot muddy it. The wolf says he spoke ill of him last year; the lamb is not yet born and still feeds on his mother's milk. Then it was his brother; he has none. Then it was one of his kind: the sheep, their shepherds and their dogs never spare the wolf, so he must take revenge. He carries the lamb into the forest and eats him, without any other trial. The reason of the strongest is always the best.

Retold from Fables de La Fontaine (Bernardin-Béchet, Paris 1874), Livre premier, X: Le Loup et l’Agneau by Jean de La Fontaine (public domain).

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