LOSS OF CONFIDENCE.
A shepherd was rating liis dinner beside ft Spring when a wolf walked out of the forest and coolly inquired : "Well, how is the wool and mutton business ?" "Pretty fair," replied the astonished shepherd. "I have come to tell you continued the wolf, " that the hyenas have formed a plot to break into your sheep-fold to-night, and to offpr my services as a private watch nan." " You are ever so kind to give me this warning." "And you just leave the gate open and go to bed feeling perfectly safe. The first , hyena who comes fooling around your .mutton will find hi a heels breaking his neck." After some further conversation it was •greed that the gate should be left open ' and that the wolf should stand guard. Darkness was scarcely an hour old - when a great outcry was heard atthe fold ■: and the shepherd ran out and discovered the wolf in a trap he had set witbin the pen. - : "Is this the kind of confidence you ": had in me?" howled the wolf as he struggled to get free. ■ "I had plenty of confidence in you, i replied the shepherd, "but more in the trap L Prepare to die !" Moral: Don't lend both horse and . saddle to the same person.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4649, 28 November 1883, Page 3
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213LOSS OF CONFIDENCE. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4649, 28 November 1883, Page 3
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