Narrative of the Young Shepherd

Narrative of the Young Shepherd

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At the center of the enchanting rolling meadows, lived a shepherd boy. His life was untarnished, and unsophisticated. His only responsibility was mainly to tend to his herd of sheep.

Their low murmuring and the murmuring of the gales among the solo tree on the peak were his main co-dwellers. Day in day, looking out for his charges imbued in him a sense of calm satisfaction.

However, there were the occasional moments of loneliness, when the shepherd boy would pine for companionship. In one such instance from sheer monotony, the shepherd boy devised a mischievous plot.

Stories of The shepherd boy story wild beasts hunting on sheep had been heard times and again in the village. So, the boy chose to used this fear and played a joke on the inhabitants.

One afternoon he dashed into the village yelling “Wolf! A wolf is attacking my sheep!” The scared villagers sprinted up the hills for rescue but saw no wolf.

The boy giggled at the puzzle on their faces. This trick continued for a couple of more days. But, one morning, a real wolf actually charge at the herd. The shepherd boy ran for aid screaming “Wolf, Wolf!” But this time, no one came.

Frustrated and alone, the boy battled against the wolf but managed to protect only few of his sheep. Devastated, he went back to the village only to be met with a scolding on honesty and the results of false alarms.

The story of this shepherd boy has been transmitted generations as a mediaeval parable to teaching the value of honesty, the consequences of lying and the dangers of false alarms. Moreover, it stresses how trust once lost, is tough to regain. It's a story as appropriate today as it was anciently.

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