Narration
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Aesop's Fables
Once upon a time there was a very naughty shepherd-boy.
He often fell asleep while he was watching his sheep.
And he told lies. The
villagers shook their heads and said, 'That boy
will come to a bad end.'
One day, when he was feeling very bored, the boy
decided to play a practical joke on the villagers.
He ran down the hill.
'Wolf,
wolf!' he cried. 'Help, come
quickly. Wolf!'
All
the villagers seized their spears and ran to help him. But there was no wolf.
'He heard you,'
the naughty boy lied, 'and ran away.'
When
everyone had gone, he started to laugh.
Three
weeks later, when he was feeling very bored indeed, he decided to play the
same trick again.
'Wolf,
wolf' he shouted. 'Help,
come quickly. Wolf!'
Most
of the villagers hurried to help him.
This time the boy laughed at them.
'Ha,
ha. There wasn't a wolf,'
he said. 'What
a good joke!'
The
villagers were very angry.
'Lies
are not jokes,' they said.
Two
days later the boy woke up suddenly.
He had fallen asleep in the afternoon sun.
What was that big dark animal coming towards his flock?
Suddenly it seized a lamb.
'Wolf!'
screamed the boy. 'Wolf.
Help, come quickly. Wolf!'
But
none of the villagers came to help him.
He screamed again. The
wolf heard him and licked its lips,
'I
like lamb,' it thought, 'but shepherd-boy tastes much nicer.'
When
the shepherd-boy didn't come home that night, some of the villagers went
to look for him. They found a
few bones.
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The Wolf Who Cried Boy
by Samuel S. Reynolds
Once
upon a time, there lived a pack of wolves. One little wolf named Joe (who
was the alpha wolf's son) was very mischievous and liked to eat sheep. One
day, he took a stroll to the local sheep pen to have a nibble
But as soon as he slipped under the fence, a boy with a stick came running past him yelling, "WOLF! WOLF!" Joe cried, "BOY! BOY!" but the boy didn't hear him. The boy hadn't even seen him! But still, Joe's mother and father came rushing to him. They dragged him into the woods and hid behind a tree. As they watched, many people came barreling towards the boy. But when they got to him, the boy cackled hysterically.
Looking annoyed
and exasperated, the people walked slowly back to their houses. "What
a mean boy," Joe thought. "I'll
show 
him
a lesson someday."
For 365 days after that, each day the boy would yell "WOLF!" The townspeople would come and go, and Joe would think to himself, "What a mean boy. Someday I'll get him."
Then,
one day, Joe did exactly that. He scared the boy and chased him. The boy
called "WOLF!" but
no one came. Joe yelled "BOY!" and
the whole pack, tired of the racket the boy made, came and helped Joe.
Soon they had nice, round tummies full of sheep and boy. Walking off
contentedly, Joe thought of the boy in his belly. Served him right, he
thought.
The End