OLD FABLES BROUGHT UP TO DATE
(Just for fun, and with apologies to Æsop)
THE SHEPHERD BOY AND THE WOLF
THE MODERN SHEPHERD BOY AND THE WOLF.
THE OLD-TIME FABLE
A Shepherd boy who watched a flock of sheep near a village brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, “Wolf! Wolf!” and, when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The wolf, however, did truly come at last. The shepherd boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: “Oh, good people, come and help me! Pray come and help me; the wolf is killing the sheep!” but, though they heard him, no one paid any heed to his cries.
THE FABLE BROUGHT UP TO DATE
Moral: The “‘Phone’” is mightier than the Yell.
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