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THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF
Adapted from Aesop
There was a young Shepherd Boy who tended his
sheep at the foot of a mountain near a deep forest.
It was rather lonely for him there all day; so he
thought of a plan by which he could cause some
excitement and get some companions to join him.
He rushed down toward the village, calling out,
“Wolf! Wolf!” and the villagers, thinking his flock
had been attacked by a wolf, hurried out to help
him. Even when they found there was no wolf
there, some of them stayed with him for a long
time.
This pleased the Boy so much that a few days
afterward, he tried the same trick again, and the
villagers once more came to his help.
But shortly after this, a Wolf really did come out
from the forest and began to worry the sheep. The
Boy of course cried out, “WoIf! Wolf!” still louder
than before. But this time, though he shouted
with all his might, the villagers who had been fooled
twice before, thought the boy was again playing a
trick on them, and nobody stirred to come to his
help.
So the Wolf made off with a large part of the
flock, and when the boy complained of what had
happened to him, the Wise Man of the Village said:
“He who tells what is untrue, will not be believed
even when he speaks the truth.”
