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Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Wolf and the Lion (1)

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London: George Routledge and Sons, page 95


THE WOLF AND THE LION.

A Wolf having stolen a lamb from a fold, was carrying him off to his lair. A Lion met him in the path, and, seizing the lamb, took it from him. The Wolf, standing at a safe distance, exclaimed, "You have unrighteously taken that which was mine from me." The Lion jeeringly replied, "It was righteously yours, eh? the gift of a friend?"