The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 21
o him: Sir,you who are trying to make out things in the sky,dont you see what is on the earth ? One might apply this word to those who pre-tend to teach men extraordinary things, but arequite unable to attend to the most common af-fairs. THE SHEPHERD-BOY AND THE WOLF. A Shepherd-boy who kept his… … times, the villagers were startled, and hurried out,and went back laughed at, when finally the wolvesreally did come. And as the wolves made waywith the flock, and he ran crying for help, theysupposed him only at his old joke, and paid noattention. And so he lost all his flock. It only shows that…
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