Aesop's Fables
A
FAMISHED WOLF was
prowling about in the morning in search of
food. As he passed the door of a
cottage built in the
forest, he heard a
Mother say to her child, "Be
quiet, or I will throw you out of the window, and the Wolf shall eat you." The Wolf sat all day waiting at the door. In the evening he heard the same woman
fondling her child and saying: "You are quiet now, and if the Wolf should come, we will
kill him." The Wolf, hearing these words, went home,
gasping with
cold and
hunger. When he reached his
den,
Mistress Wolf inquired of him why he returned
wearied and
supperless, so
contrary to his wont. He replied: "Why,
forsooth! I gave
credence to the words of a
woman!"