The Shepherd and the Dog

Aesop's Fables. Translated by Rev. George Fyler Townsend. 1860.

A Shepherd penning his sheep in the fold for the night was about to shut up a wolf with them, when his Dog perceiving the wolf said, "Master, how can you expect the sheep to be safe if you admit a wolf into the fold?"

Tags - Aesop - Fables - Shepherd - Animal - Sheep - Wolf - Dog -

Origin - Europe - Greece -