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A short story by Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables) |
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The Mother And The Wolf |
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Title: The Mother And The Wolf Author: Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables) [More Titles by Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables)] A famished Wolf was prowling about in the morning in search of food. As he passed the door of a cottage built in the forest, he heard a mother say to her child: "Be quiet, or I will throw you out of the window, and the Wolf shall eat you." The Wolf sat all day waiting at the door. In the evening he heard the same woman fondling her child, and saying: "He is quiet now, and if the Wolf should come, we will kill him." The Wolf, hearing these words, went home, gaping with cold and hunger. Be not in haste to believe what is said in anger or thoughtlessness. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |