A Wolf and A Lamb
once lived a small lamb. The lamb was a playful creature and spent its days frolicking carelessly in the fields. Despite its parents' warnings about the dangers of wild animals, the lamb remained heedless of the risks and continued to roam carelessly. One day, while quenching its thirst at a nearby river, the lamb noticed a menacing wolf drinking upstream. Despite its fear, the lamb continued to drink water, oblivious to the threat lurking nearby. The wolf, with its mouth watering at the sight of the lamb, was determined to find an excuse to attack the innocent creature.
To achieve this, the wolf, with a mischievous glint in its eye, spoke to the lamb in a condescending tone, "O lamb, why are you making the water muddy by drinking it when you see that I am drinking here?" The lamb, who had done nothing wrong, answered with naive innocence, "Sir, how can I make the water muddy? It comes down from you to me, not from me to you." The wolf, unable to fault the lamb's logic, was frustrated, but not deterred.
After a brief moment, the wolf sought another excuse to pounce on the lamb, and said, "Why did you call me names last year?" The lamb, even more humbly and innocently, replied, "Sir, I was not even born last year, how could I have called you names?" The wolf, again unable to refute the lamb's response, was increasingly irked, but resolved to continue his quest for a reason to attack the lamb.
Finally, unable to find any legitimate excuse to harm the innocent creature, the wolf decided to attack the lamb with brute force. He exclaimed, "Then it was your father or mother or someone else. You must suffer for their rudeness." The wolf pounced on the lamb, tearing it apart and devouring it in one fell swoop.
This fable teaches us a valuable lesson about the dangers of evil-doers and powerful villains who seek to harm us for no reason. It is imperative that we take precautions and safeguard ourselves against the malicious intentions of such individuals, lest we suffer the fate of the poor lamb who lost its life for no fault of its own.
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