There was once a young Shepherd Boy who tended his
sheep at the foot of a mountain near a dark forest. It was
rather lonely for him all day, so he thought upon a plan by
which he could get a little company and some excitement.
He rushed down towards the village calling out ‘Wolf,
Wolf,’ and the villagers came out to meet him, and some
of them stopped with him for a considerable time. This
pleased the boy so much that a few days afterwards he
tried the same trick, and again the villagers came to his
help. But shortly after this a Wolf actually did come out
from the forest, and began to worry the sheep, and the
boy of course cried out ‘Wolf, Wolf,’ still louder than
before. But this time the villagers, who had been fooled
twice before, thought the boy was again deceiving them,
and nobody stirred to come to his help. So the Wolf made
a good meal off the boy’s flock, and when the boy
complained, the wise man of the village said:
‘A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the
truth.’
Moral Lesson: ‘A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the
truth.’
―
Aesop
