English Original
A wolf saw a goat feeding at the summit of a rock, where he could not reach her.
"Why do you stay up there in that sterile place and go hungry?" said the wolf. "Down here where I am, the broken-bottle vine cometh up as a flower, the celluloid collar blossoms as the rose, and the tin-can tree brings forth after its kind."
"That is true, no doubt," said the goat, "but how about the circus-poster crop? I hear that it failed this year down there."
The wolf, perceiving that he was being chaffed, went away and resumed his duties at the doors of the poor.
中文翻译
一只狼看见一只山羊在一块岩石顶上吃草，他无法够到她。
"你为什么待在那个贫瘠的地方挨饿呢？"狼说。"在我所在的下面，破瓶子藤像花儿一样生长，赛璐珞领子像玫瑰一样开花，铁罐树也按其种类结出果实。"
"这无疑是真的，"山羊说，"但马戏团海报的收成如何？我听说今年下面那儿的收成可不好。"
狼意识到自己正在被戏弄，便离开了，继续在穷人家门口履行他的职责。