[Illustration: THE WOLVES AND THE SHEEP.]
The Wolves and the Sheep had been a long time in a state of war
together. At last a cessation of arms was proposed, in order to a treaty
of peace, and hostages were to be delivered on both sides for security.
The Wolves proposed that the Sheep should give up their dogs, on the one
side, and that they would deliver up their young ones, on the other.
This proposal was agreed to; but no sooner executed, than the young
Wolves began to howl for want of their dams. The old ones took this
opportunity to cry out, the treaty was broke; and so falling upon the
Sheep, who were destitute of their faithful guardians the dogs, they
worried and devoured them without control.