Be truthful
Once upon a time,
there lived a shepherd boy who was bored watching his flock of sheep on the
hill. To amuse himself, he shouted,
Wolf!
Wolf! The sheep are being chased by the wolf!” The villagers came running to
help the boy and save the sheep.
They found nothing and the boy just laughed
looking at their angry faces.
“Don’t cry ‘wolf’
when there’s no wolf boy!”, they said angrily and left. The boy just laughed at
them.
After a while, he
got bored and cried ‘wolf!’ again, fooling the villagers a second time.
The angry
villagers warned the boy a second time and left. The boy continued watching the
flock.
After a while, he
saw a real wolf and cried loudly, “Wolf! Please help! The wolf is chasing the
sheep. Help!”
But this time, no
one turned up to help.
By evening, when
the boy didn’t return home, the villagers wondered what happened to him and
went up the hill.
The boy sat on the
hill weeping. “Why didn’t you come when I called out that there was a wolf?” he
asked angrily. “The flock is scattered now”, he said.
An old villager
approached him and said,
“People won’t believe liars even when they tell the
truth. We’ll look for your sheep tomorrow morning. Let’s go home now”.
Moral
Lying breaks
trust. Nobody trusts a liar, even when he is telling the truth.
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