The Wolf And The Shepherd
A Wolf followed a flock of sheep for a long time and did not attempt
to injure one of them. The Shepherd at first stood on his guard against
him, as against an enemy, and kept a strict watch over his movements.
But when the Wolf, day after day, kept in the company of the sheep
and did not make the slightest effort to seize them, the Shepherd
began to look upon him as a guardian of his flock rather than as a
plotter of evil against it; and when occasion called him one day into
the city, he left the sheep entirely in his charge. The Wolf, now
that he had the opportunity, fell upon the sheep, and destroyed the
greater part of the flock. When the Shepherd returned to find his
flock destroyed, he exclaimed: "I have been rightly served; why did
I trust my sheep to a Wolf?'
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