The Wolf and the
Lamb
Vocabulary:
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lapping - to drink a liquid
by licking it up with the tongue.
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seize - to grab, to take
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spring - a small stream
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tyrant - a ruler who has his/her
own way in everything, makes all the rules.
Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping
at a spring on a hillside, when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just
beginning to drink a little lower down.
"There's my supper," thought
he, "if only I can find some excuse to seize it."
Then he called out to the Lamb,
"How dare you muddle the water from which I am drinking?"
"Nay, master, nay," said
Lambikin; "if the water be muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it,
for it runs down from you to me."
"Well, then," said the
Wolf, "why did you call me bad names this time last year?"
"That cannot be," said
the Lamb; "I am only six months old."
"I don't care," snarled
the Wolf; "if it was not you it was your father;" and with that he
rushed upon the poor little Lamb and "WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA "
ate her all up. But before she died she gasped out
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."
Questions to discuss:
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Can you think of times in which
someone made excuses to do the wrong thing?
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What are ways to deal with a
tyrant or bully?
