Reading stories 5

Once there was a boy who was a shepherd. He looked after the sheep in a nearby village.

He would often get bored and to amuse himself he would call out, “Wolf! Wolf,” actually, there was no wolf.

  The villagers would stop their work and come running to help the him  and the sheep from the wolf’s jaw;

but when they arrived at the pasture, the boy would just laugh.

The naughty boy played this joke over and over until the villagers were tired of him.

One day while the boy was watching the sheep, a wolf really came into the field.

This time when he  cried and cried, “Wolf! Wolf!” but no one came to help him. People thought that he was

lying.

The wolf got many sheep to eat. It was a party for the wolf.

Moral : “No one will believe a habitual liar even when he is telling the truth.”