The Wolf and the Shepherd故事

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The Wolf and the Shepherd故事
            A WOLF followed a flock of sheep for a long time and did not
            attempt to injure one of them.  The Shepherd at first stood on
            his guard against him, as against an enemy, and kept a strict
            watch over his movements.  But when the Wolf, day after day, kept
            in the company of the sheep and did not make the slightest effort
            to seize them, the Shepherd began to look upon him as a guardian
            of his flock rather than as a plotter of evil against it; and
            when occasion called him one day into the city, he left the sheep
            entirely in his charge.  The Wolf, now that he had the
            opportunity, fell upon the sheep, and destroyed the greater part
            of the flock.  When the Shepherd returned to find his flock
            destroyed, he exclaimed:  "I have been rightly served; why did I
            trust my sheep to a Wolf?'