狼和羊羔
一只狼瞧见一只走失失群的羊羔，决议暂缓下毒手，想先找一些理由，对羊羔证明自己有吃它的权力。它就说：「小鬼!你上一年从前骂过我。」羊羔可怜地说：「老实说，我上一年还没有出生呢。」狼再说：「你在我的草地上吃过草。」
羊羔回答说：「不，好先生，我还未曾尝过草的滋味呢。」狼又说：「你喝过我井里的水。」羊羔叫道：「不，我从没有喝过水，由于直到今天停止，我都是吃着母亲的奶汁。」狼一听这话，便捉住它，把它吃下去，便说：「好!即便你批驳我每一句话，我毕竟要吃晚餐的!」暴君总有他暴行的托言。
The Wolf and the Lamba
Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the Lamb himself his 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." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture."
"No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother′s milk is both food and drink to me." On which the Wolf seized him, and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won′t remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations."The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.