The Wolf and the Lamb
A wolf and a lamb, driven by thirst, came to the same stream. The wolf stopped upstream, the lamb much further downstream. So that scoundrel, in his insatiable hunger, saught a pretext for a quarrel.
“Why,” said he, “are you muddying the water I’m drinking?”
Fearfully, the lamb replied: “I’m sorry, but how could I do that? [...]