The Shepherd Boy And The Wolf | Aesop Fable

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"The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf" is a classic fable about a boy who, bored with his job, twice falsely cries "Wolf!" to trick the villagers into rushing to his aid. When a wolf actually appears and threatens his sheep, he cries out for help again, but the villagers, having been deceived twice before, ignore his pleas. As a result, the wolf kills many of his sheep, illustrating the moral that liars are not believed even when they tell the truth.



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The shepherd boy and the Wolf. A shepherd boy tended
his master sheep near dark forest not far from the village.
Soon he found life in the pasture very dull. All
he could do to amuse himself was to talk to
his dog or play on his shepherd's pipe. One day,
as he sat watching the sheep and the quiet forest

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and thinking what he would do if he saw a wolf,
he thought of a plan to amuse himself. His master
had told him to call for help should a wolf
attack the flock, and the villagers would drive it away. So, now,
though he had not seen anything that even looked like
a wolf, he ran toward the village, shouting at the

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top of his voice, wolf Wolf. As he expected, the
villagers who heard the cry drop their work and ran
in great excitement to the pasture. But when they got
there they found the boy doubled up with laughter at
the trick he had played on them. A few days later,
the shepherd boy again shouted wolf Wolf. Again, the villagers

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ran to help him, only to be laughed at again.
Then one evening, as the sun was setting behind the
forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture,
a wolf really did spring from under the underbrush and
fall upon the sheep. In terror, the boy ran toward
the village shouting, wolf, Wolf, but though the villagers heard

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the cry, they did not run to help him as
they had before. He can't fool us again, they said.
The wolf killed a great many of the boy's sheep
and then slipped away into the forest