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The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf

Public Domain Translation of Aesop's Fables Selections

From George Fyler Townsend

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A Shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: "Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep"; but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance. The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock.

Read the following selections from Aesop
There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.

P. 1 The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf
P. 2 The Shepherd and the Wolf
P. 3 The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea
P. 4 The Sick Kite
P. 5 The Sick Lion

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