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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

39. THE MAN, THE WOLF AND THE DOG
Perry 365 (Babrius 113)

A man was gathering his sheep into the fold one evening and was about to enclose a tawny wolf inside with the flock. When the dog saw what he was doing, he said to the man, 'How can you be serious about protecting the sheep when you are introducing this creature among us?'


Source: Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura Gibbs. Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.