The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – An English fairy tale from Aesop’s fables with vocabulary practice and podcast
Source of story: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org
The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
A certain wolf could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the shepherds. But one night he found a sheep skin that had been cast aside and forgotten.
- Watchfulness: alertness, attention
- Cast aside: put aside, get rid of
The next day, dressed in the skin, the wolf strolled into the pasture with the sheep. Soon a little lamb was following him about and was quickly led away to slaughter.
- Stroll: walk unhurriedly, wander, saunter
- Pasture: land for grazing, meadow
- Slaughter: killing, murder, butchery
That evening, the wolf entered the fold with the flock. But it happened that the shepherd took a fancy for mutton broth that very evening, and, picking up a knife, went to the fold.
- Fold: a small indoor place to keep cattle
- Flock: group of sheep
- Mutton: meat of sheep
There, the first he laid hands on and killed was the wolf.
Related idiom or proverb
The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit.
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