![]() ![]() Re-issued Macdonald, using first edition sheets, re-cased and with a new dust wrapper bearing an ISBN. The same consequences follow falsehood and deception, whether practised by individuals or public governors, and they will both find in the end that they have been guided by cunning, and not by wisdom: for although the ignorant part of mankind may, to serve the temporary purposes of a bad government, be acted upon by false alarms of imaginary dangers, yet even these in time will see through the stale tricks and artifices of those whose designs are to gull and impose upon them.(Volume 2, A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight )įirst published Macdonald, October 1952 (12s 6d) ![]() Whatever misfortune may befal them, and however sincere they may be in making known their distress, yet, like the boy in the Fable, their complaints and most earnest asseverations cannot procure them credit, and are received at best with doubt and suspicion. Men of this stamp soon become notorious and besides the ignominy which attaches to their characters, they have to undergo the mortification of not being believed even when they do speak the truth. The man who would go through the world with reputation and success, must preserve a religious adherence to truth: for no talents or industry can give him weight with others, or induce the sensible part of mankind to place any confidence in him, if he be known to deviate without scruple from veracity. It was not long, however, before the Wolf really came, and the Boy bawled out “the Wolf! the Wolf!” as he had done before but the men having been so often deceived, paid no attention to his cries, and the sheep were devoured without mercy. Liars are not believed even when they speak the truth.Ī Shepherd’s Boy, while attending his flock, used frequently to divert himself by crying out, “the Wolf! the Wolf!” The Husbandmen in the adjoining grounds, thus alarmed, left their work and ran to his assistance, but finding that he was only sporting with their feelings, and bantering them, they resolved at last to take no notice of his alarms. The Wolf killed a great many of the Boy’s sheep and then slipped away into the forest. In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting “Wolf! Wolf!” But though the Villagers heard the cry, they did not run to help him as they had before. Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a Wolf really did spring from the underbrush and fall upon the Sheep. But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them.Ī few days later the Shepherd Boy again shouted, “Wolf! Wolf!” Again the Villagers ran to help him, only to be laughed at again. So now, though he had not seen anything that even looked like a Wolf, he ran toward the village shouting at the top of his voice, “Wolf! Wolf!”Īs he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture. ![]() His Master had told him to call for help should a Wolf attack the flock, and the Villagers would drive it away. One day as he sat watching the Sheep and the quiet forest, and thinking what he would do should he see a Wolf, he thought of a plan to amuse himself. All he could do to amuse himself was to talk to his dog or play on his shepherd’s pipe. Soon he found life in the pasture very dull. A Shepherd Boy tended his master’s Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village. ![]()
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