![]() "Well, then," said the Wolf, "why did you call me bad names this time last year?" "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." "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?" 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. ![]() Precious things are for those that can prize them. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard? "You may be a treasure," quoth Master Cock, "to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls." "Ho! ho!" quoth he, "that's for me," and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw.
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