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: “Oh, good people, come and help me! Pray come and help me; the wolf is killing the sheep!” but, though they heard him, no one paid any heed to his cries.
Moral: There is no believing a falsifier, even when he speaks the truth.
THE FABLE BROUGHT UP TO DATE
A Shepherd boy had a flock of sheep to watch some distance from the nearest village. He cried “Wolf! Wolf!” but the villagers could not hear him. His master, being informed of this fact, had a “telephone service” installed, with a direct wire to his house. The wolf came! The boy telephoned. The master answered the call, armed himself with a repeating rifle, got into his 40 H. P. motor-car, raced to the pasture, killed the wolf, and thus saved his flock!
