AT ONE TIME a very large and strong Wolf was born among the wolves, who exceeded all his fellow-wolves in strength, size, and swiftness, so that they unanimously decided to call him “Lion.” The Wolf, with a lack of sense proportioned to his enormous size, thought that they gave him this name in earnest, and, leaving his own race, consorted exclusively with the lions. —
An old sly Fox, seeing this, said, “May I never make myself so ridiculous as you do in your pride and self-conceit; —
for even though you have the size of a lion among wolves, in a herd of lions you are definitely a wolf.”