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Three hundred Aesop’s fables

The Shepherd and the Dog

George Fyler Townsend translation

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?”

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