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Short Tales Fables: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

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15th May 2014

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780750278317

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The tale concerns a shepherd boy who repeatedly tricks nearby villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his flock. When a wolf actually does appear, the villagers do not believe the boy’s cries for help, and the flock is destroyed. The moral shows how lying is not rewarded.