A kid climbed onto the roof of an outhouse, attracted by the grass and other plants growing in the thatch. As he stood there browsing, he spotted a wolf passing below and jeered at him because the wolf couldn't reach him.
The wolf merely looked up and said, "I hear you, my young friend. But it is not you who mocks me, but the roof on which you are standing."
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