Narrative of the Young Shepherd

Narrative of the Young Shepherd

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At the center of the mesmerizing rolling fields, resided a boy named Shepherd. His life was essentially unadulterated, and unsophisticated. His primary duty was essentially to look after his herd of rams.

Their gentle baas and the murmuring of the gales among the lone tree on the hilltop were his main associates. Day in day, watching over his charges instilled in him a feeling of tranquil contentment.

But, there were at times moments of isolation, when the shepherd boy would long for company. On one such day out of sheer boredom, the shepherd boy devised a naughty plan.

Stories of wild beasts hunting on sheep had long been circulating in the hamlet. So, the boy decided to leveraged this fear and played a joke on the villagers.

One morning he dashed into the village shouting “Wolf! A wolf is that has taken my sheep!” The frightened villagers sprinted up the hills to help but discovered nothing threatening.

The boy laughed at the dilemma on their faces. This game persisted for a few more days. However, one day, a real wolf actually attack the grazing sheep. The shepherd boy ran for aid screaming “Wolf, Wolf!” But this time, no one more info showed up.

Frustrated and alone, the boy struggled against the wolf but managed to protect only few of his flock. Devastated, he returned to the town only to receive a reprimand on honesty and the results of crying wolf.

His tale of this shepherd boy has been handed down generations as a mediaeval parable to teaching the importance of honesty, the consequences of lying and the dangers of false alarms. Moreover, it stresses how trust once violated, is difficult to earn back. It's a story as appropriate today as it was then.

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