Aesop's tales # 30 - The Wolf and the
Shepherd
A Wolf had been prowling around a flock of
Sheep for a long time, and the Shepherd watched very anxiously to prevent him
from carrying off a Lamb. But the Wolf did not try to do any harm. Instead he
seemed to be helping the Shepherd take care of the Sheep. At last the Shepherd
got so used to seeing the Wolf about that he forgot how wicked he could be.
One day he even went so far as to leave his
flock in the Wolf's care while he went on an errand. But when he came back and
saw how many of the flock had been killed and carried off, he knew how foolish
to trust a Wolf as he exclaimed. “I have been rightly served; why did I trust
my sheep to a Wolf?”
Moral: Delegate your task
wisely, and only to people you trust.
