The Wolf and the Lamb

Will the wolf pay this time…?

A wolf was drinking water on the bank of a river. A little away, downstream, was a lamb taking small sips.

“Why are you dirtying the water I am drinking,” growled the wolf.

“Sir, but I am downstream, how can I dirty the water reaching you?” The lamb tried to reason with the wolf.

“Okay! Okay!” said the wolf, his accent American, his logic Trumpian. “But why did you use abusive language with me last year?”

“But Sir, I wasn’t born last year,” pleaded the lamb wiping his sweat.

“Then, it must have been your mother,” said the angry wolf and pounced on the lamb.

That is the original version of the story.

The current version, has some more characters and interesting twists. The wolf is rankled more by two other animals in the jungle—the bear and the little dragon who have enough nuisance value for him. To his annoyance, the lamb is friendly with the bear. And, playing on the mind of the slimy wolf is the fear: “What if, let alone the lamb, the bear and the little dragon, other animals of the jungle stand up against him?

The animals of the jungle have a different concern.

Their worry is that the wolf has an Indian brain, a Chinese heart, a Vietnamese kidney, Latino lungs, Mexican blood, Jewish bones… but, it is controlled by its own xxxhole. How much more stink will it bestow upon the jungle before it suffers from the same?