The Shepherd's Boy and Wolf

A Shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying, "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: "Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep;" but no one paid any heed to his cries.

There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.


一个牧童在一个村庄附近放羊，他经常高喊“狼来了，狼来了”，把村民们喊出来三四次，邻居们来帮助他，他就笑嘲笑村民们的窘态。然而，最后狼真的来了。牧童这下真的惊慌失措了，他惊恐地喊道：“求求你们，快来帮助我，狼在吃羊。”但是再也没有人相信他的呼喊了。