狼和驢的故事

陳雪華

A wolf once met a donkey on the road out-? 有一回，狼在村外的路上碰見驢。

side the village.

“I m going to eat you up.”said the wolf.

“Certainly， ”replied the donkey， thinkingfast.“But please don t eat me out here on theroad where everyone can see. I shall be soashamed. Take me into the forest. Don t beafraid that I shall try to escape. Here， tie thisrope round your neck and fasten it to my bridle.Then I will lead you to a quiet spot I know.”

The wolf thought this was a good idea sohe fastened the rope round his neck and knottedit firmly to the donkey s bridle.

“Now I will go wherever you say.”saidthe donkey.

“Show me the way to your quiet spot.”or-dered the wolf.

“Very well， ”said the donkey， setting offdown the road towards the village. As theycame to the first houses the wolf began to sus-pect that he had been tricked.

“This is not the way to the forest， ”hesaid， tugging at his end of the rope.“This roadgoes to the village.”

“Don t worry， ”said the donkey cheerful-ly，“This is a short cut.”The donkey began totrot faster， then to gallop. The rope round thewolf s neck drew tight; in a very short time hewas dragged right up to the donkey s door.

The master， his wife and their three sonsall came running out to rescue the donkey.They were so angry that they would have killedthe wolf there and then. Fortunately for thewolf， however， one of the sons threw a knife athim. The knife missed， but it cut the rope roundhis neck. The next moment all the family couldsee was a cloud of dust in the road as the wolffled to the dark forest.

有一回，狼在村外的路上碰見驢。

“我要把你吃掉。”狼說(shuō)。

“當(dāng)然可以，”驢靈機(jī)一動(dòng)，回答說(shuō)，“但請(qǐng)不要在這條路上吃，人人都會(huì)看見的，我會(huì)感到難為情。把我?guī)У缴掷锶グ伞e擔(dān)心我會(huì)逃跑。喏，把這根繩子一頭繞在你脖子上，一頭拴在我的韁繩上，然后我把你帶到一個(gè)我熟悉的安靜的地方去。”

狼認(rèn)為這是個(gè)好主意，于是把繩子繞在脖子上，把另一頭牢牢系在驢的韁繩上。

“現(xiàn)在你說(shuō)到什么地方去，我就到什么地方去。”驢說(shuō)。

“帶我到你說(shuō)的那個(gè)安靜的地方去。”狼吩咐道。

“很好。”驢說(shuō)著，就沿著通向村子的路走去。他們來(lái)到頭幾所房子附近時(shí)，狼懷疑自己受騙上當(dāng)了。

“這不是到森林去的路，”他使勁拉繩子的一頭說(shuō)，“這條路是到村子里去的。”

“別著急，”驢高興地說(shuō)，“這是一條近路。”驢加快了步子，接著跑起來(lái)。套在狼脖子上的繩子抽緊了；一會(huì)兒功夫，就把狼拉到驢的家門口。

驢的主人、主人的妻子和三個(gè)兒子都跑出來(lái)救驢。他們非常生氣，要立即就地把狼打死。不過(guò)，狼很幸運(yùn)，主人的一個(gè)兒子拿刀砍狼，沒(méi)砍著，卻把套在狼脖子上的繩子砍斷了。轉(zhuǎn)眼之間，這一家子看到路上塵土飛揚(yáng)，狼逃向黑暗的樹林里去了。