By Aesop as retold by Rebecca Lunsford
One beautiful spring day, in a pasture filled with lush grass and colorful wildflowers tucked away in the Alps was a shepherd and his flock which leisurely grazed in the fields. Now a wolf, scrawny in size, with devious yellow eyes, and a thick coat of gray fur, came upon the pasture. He was very hungry, as it had been several days since his last meal, and a leg of lamb sounded very tasty to him. But the wolf was smart and knew that if he tried to attack the flock, the shepherd would drive him away. So the wolf started to think of a way he could get close to the sheep without being noticed. He suddenly remembered the discarded sheep’s pelt he had found a few days ago and rushed back to his den to retrieve it.
Later, the wolf returned, now wearing the skin. He casually slipped into the pasture and mingled with the sheep, pretending to graze with them, successfully fooling the shepherd. The sheep, however, noticed the new sheep’s odd behavior and bleated and baaed loudly saying, “This new sheep is not what he seems. There is something odd about him.” But the shepherd did not understand.
Later, as the sun was setting, the shepherd drove the sheep home to their pen. He locked the gate and made sure nothing could get in or out of the enclosure. The wolf waited patiently for the perfect moment to strike and was about to kill one of the sheep so he could finally have something to eat when the shepherd returned. The shepherd was in need of his own dinner, and his eyes scanned the pen, looking for the scrawniest sheep, which unfortunately happened to be the wolf. When the shepherd caught up the wolf, his sheepskin fell back, revealing to the shepherd that he was actually a wolf. The startled shepherd quickly killed the wolf and had wolf for dinner instead.
“If harm you seek then harm you’ll find.”
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