STORY

Extract:

There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep and enjoying the different animals on the fields. He observed the animals and drew them in his notebook. He liked to draw all kinds of birds and their wings, but also other animals’ claws, fangs, paws and tails, like rabbits or foxes.

Eventually, he ran out of animals to draw, and to amuse himself he took a great breath and sang out: ‘WOLF! WOLF! The wolf is chasing the sheep!

The people in the village came running up the hill to help the boy drive the wolf away. The tailors were carrying their needles, the builders carrying their drills and even some women carrying their irons and vacuum cleaners. But when they arrived at the top of the hill, they found no wolf.

When the villagers saw no wolf, they said: ‘save your frightened song for when there is really something wrong! Don’t cry wolf when there is NO wolf! But the boy just grinned and watched them go grumbling down the hill.

Later, the boy cried: ‘WOLF!’ again: ‘The wolf is chasing the sheep!’ To his amusement, he watched the villagers run up the hill to help him drive the wolf away. The boy laughed at the sight of their angry faces. ‘Don’t cry wolf shepherd boy’- said the villagers, ‘when there is no wolf!’ They went grumbling back down the hill.

The next day, something really scary happened. A real wolf had arrived to the surroundings of the village.

TO BE CONTINUED…