The Kid and the Wolf

by Aesop

A KID, mounted on a high rock, bestowed all manner of abuse upon a Wolf on the ground below. The Wolf, looking up, replied: Do not think, vain creature, that you annoy me. I regard this ill language as coming not from you, but from the place on which you stand.

Source:

Aesop's Fables
Copyright 1881
Translator: unknown
WM. L. Allison, New York
Illustrator: Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, Ernest Griset, et.al.
 

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