One day a house-dog chanced to meet a lean and thin wolf. “Good day, wolf,” said the house-dog, “Why do you look so thin and pale?”
“Good-day, dog,” said the wolf, “you are well-fed and welt taken care of. But I always look for food and yet I can hardly, get it.”
The house-dog said, “Why don’t you work as I do? My master gives me plenty of food and in return I do the light duty of watching his house at night. Come with me and work for a good living.”
“I thank you,” said the wolf, “I should like that.”
On the way to the master’s house, the wolf saw a mark on the dog’s neck and enquired what it was.
“Why” the dog replied, “it is the mark of the chain in which I am tied in the day time at night I am free to run where I like.”
“Good-night,” said the wolf, “I won’t go to your master. It’s better to be free and hungry than to be well fed and a slave.”
Moral: Liberty is true happiness.
