原创 The Wolf, the Nanny-Goat, and The Kid Wow Gold

A Nanny-goat went out to fill her empty milk bag
And graze newly sprung grass, 
She fastened the latch tight,
Warned her Kid saying: 
"Do not, upon your life,
Open the door unless  you are  shown
This sign and told this password: 
'Plague on the wolf and his breed!' "
As she was saying these words,
The Wolf by chance  prowling around,
  Overheard the spoken words
And kept them in his memory.
Nanny-Goat, as one can well believe,
Had not seen the glutton beast.
As soon as she departs, he changes his voice
And in a counterfeit tone 
He asks to be let in, saying: "Plague on the Wolf,"
Believing he'd go right in.
The  canny Kid looks through the crack,
"Show me your white paw, else I'll not open."
He shouted at once. (White paw is a thing
Seldom  seen in wolfdom, as everyone knows.)
This Wolf, aghast  upon hearing these words,
Went  slinking home the same way he had come.

Where would the Kid be now, had he believed
The password, which by chance
Our Wolf had overheard?

Two guarantees are  better than one,
Even a third one would not be extreme.

Better be sure than sorry

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  Le Loup, la Chèvre et le Chevreau

La Bique allant remplir sa tra?nante mamelle
Et pa?tre l'herbe nouvelle,
Ferma sa porte au loquet,
Non sans dire à son Biquet :
Gardez-vous sur votre vie
D'ouvrir que l'on ne vous die,
Pour enseigne et mot du guet :
Foin du Loup et de sa race !
Comme elle disait ces mots,
Le Loup de fortune passe ;
Il les recueille à propos,
Et les garde en sa mémoire.
La Bique, comme on peut croire,
N'avait pas vu le glouton.
Dès qu'il la voit partie, il contrefait son ton,
Et d'une voix papelarde
Il demande qu'on ouvre, en disant Foin du Loup,
Et croyant entrer tout d'un coup.
Le Biquet soup?onneux par la fente regarde.
Montrez-moi patte blanche, ou je n'ouvrirai point,
S'écria-t-il d'abord. (Patte blanche est un point
Chez les Loups, comme on sait, rarement en usage.)
Celui-ci, fort surpris d'entendre ce langage,
Comme il était venu s'en retourna chez soi.
A blonde motorist was two hours from Sydney when she was flagged down by a man whose truck had broken down. The man walked up to the blonde's car and asked, "Are you going to Sydney?" "Sure," answered the blonde, wow power leveling"do you need a lift?" "Not for me. I'll be spending the next three hours fixing my truck. My problem is I've got two chimpanzees in the back which have to be delivered to Taronga Park Zoo. They're a bit stressed already so I don't want to keep them on the road all day. Could you possibly take them to the zoo for me? I'll give you fifty dollars for your trouble." "I'd be happy to," wow goldsaid the blonde. So the two chimpanzees were ushered into the back seat of the blonde's car and carefully strapped into their seat belts. Off they went. Five hours later, wow power levelingthe truck driver was driving through the heart of Sydney when suddenly he was horrified. There was the blonde walking down the street and holding hands with the two chimps, much to the amusement of the crowd. With a screech of brakes he pulled off the road and ran over to the blonde. "What the hell are you doing here?" he demanded,wow gold "I gave you fifty dollars to take these chimpanzees to the zoo." "Yes, I know you did," said the blonde, wow power leveling"but just as we arrived it looked like it was going to rain so we decided to see a movie instead."Où serait le Biquet s'il e?t ajouté foi
Au mot du guet, que de fortune
Notre Loup avait entendu ?
Deux s?retés valent mieux qu'une,
Et le trop en cela ne fut jamais perdu.