Context: A Wolf and a Lamb chance to meet at a stream one day while drinking, the Wolf upstream from the Lamb. The Wolf, however, wants to pick a quarrel with the Lamb, so he accuses the Lamb of muddying the water that the Wolf must drink. The Lamb protests that this is impossible since he is downstream. Next the Wolf accuses the Lamb of having used ill language about him a year ago. This time the Lamb points out the impossibility of this charge because he was not even born at that time. Aesop ends the fable thus: . . . The Wolf, finding it to no purpose to argue any longer against the truth, fell into a great passion, snarling and foaming at the mouth, as if he had been mad; and drawing nearer to the Lamb, "Sirrah," says he, "if it was not you, it was your father, and that is all one." So he seized the poor innocent, helpless thing, tore it to pieces and made a meal of it.