Krilof and His Fables/The Lion and the Wolf
The Lion and the Wolf.
While a Lion was breakfasting off a lamb, a little Dog, which was frisking around the regal table, tore away a small morsel from under the Lion's claws; and the King of Beasts passed the matter over without taking any offence. (The Dog was still young and foolish.)
A Wolf, who saw this, took it into its head that as the Lion was so patient it could not possibly be strong. And so it also laid its paw upon the lamb.
But it fared badly with the Wolf. The Wolf itself got served up at tire Lion's table. The Lion tore it asunder, addressing it thus the while:
"You were wrong, my friend, to suppose, from what you saw the dog do, that I should wink at your doings also. The dog has not yet come to years of discretion, but as for you—you are no longer a mere cub."
