The Shepherd

In the area of ​​wide meadows, green grass like a green carpet, there lived a shepherd who had a lot of sheep. Every day he grazed his sheep in the pasture.

‘This job is very fun, I can graze the sheep while playing around’ he thought. It was true that he could tend the sheep while playing around when he was saturated. Sometimes he played chase and catch the sheep which were eating green grass. 

Sometimes he also climbed trees to pick the fruit and lied on the tree while looking at the sheep from above.

'The place is very comfortable at all.' Think the shepherd as he closed his eyes began to feel heavy. He fell asleep.

After waking up, he saw the sheep were sheltering under a very shady tree. After that, he did not forget to count the number of sheep. And the sheep were apparently still intact. He was muttering, 'This job is great fun apparently, because even though I was sleeping, the sheep are not lost at all.'

The rainy season was the season that he didn’t like at all, because he would work harder every day. He was annoyed at having to wash the sheep every evening before getting the sheep in. And he could not play or sleep in the tree anymore. Therefore, he thought that the sheep should not be grazed too far. In fact, every day he forced the sheep grazing in one place. This caused the grass near the cage were exhausted quickly.

Until the end of the rainy season, the grass around the cage was up and resembling a barren terrain. Instead area further there planted green grass resembled a very dense forest. It made him have further herding sheep. And it was getting much when he grazed the sheep approaching the wilderness.

This made him far from the village and easy to feel tired and bored. 'Ah, so bored. I've climbed a tree and slept but I am still tired too,’ he muttered as more bored.

From here, he could only see a few people were farming.

To amuse himself, he sometimes left his sheep just to chat with the farmers. However, according to the farmers, he was very disturbing their work as he invited a conversation while they were busy working.

Then the farmers also agreed to not respond when he invited the conversation. And this made him furious with the farmers.

'I just want to chat with them, why they do ignore me anyway. This makes me get angry. I'll fool them, 'thought the shepherd as he walked toward the sheep.

'Mm… how to fool them ... mmm,' muttered the shepherd while holding his chin.

'Aha, I get the idea. I'll just pretend my sheep are attacked by wolves. Once they come here and see my sheep are fine, they would look fool hahaha, 'said the shepherd confidently.

Finally he started the idea to fool them.

'Help ... wolves .... wolves attack my sheep. Help me…' shout the shepherd.

Due to shout loud enough to hear, the farmers also came with tools that are prepared to repel wolves. But what a surprise, when they arrived at the sheep, it was calm and nothing happen.

Puzzling, one of them asked. 'Hey, where are the wolves? We see that you and your sheep are okay! '

Instead of answering, the shepherd was laughing out loud. 'Hahahaha wolves? Are you kidding me? There are no wolves here, don’t you see it? My sheep are just fine hahaha… fool you.’

The farmers even more annoyed with his attitude. They all were feeling very cranky and angry.

'Huh, you little liar," said one of the farmers.

'Yeah, he's a liar!" replied the oldest farmers while he laid the hoe on his shoulder.

'Let's just get back to work."

Eventually they return to work. The shepherd still laughed. 'Hahaha they are stupid as well, there are no wolves here, hahaha'.

The next day, he did it again. And the farmers got angrier.

Finally one of the farmers said, "Tomorrow, if he yells again, we have to keep coming, because surely he's lying again."

'Sure.' replied the other farmer.

The third day, the shepherd was not aware that he leaded his sheep closer to the forest. And when he tried to rest, suddenly a group of wolves were running around chasing his sheep. He was frantic. He shouted with a voice asking for help the farmers. But none of them came.

'Help… wolves… wolves… help me….oh nooo… my sheep…’ Shouted the shepherd with a panic of seeing the sheep are attacked by wolves.

In the area of ​​agriculture, farmers ignored it, one of them said, 'He must be lying again like the other day, we should not be there, or he will just laughed at us.' Other farmer replied. "Absolutely, we're better continuing our work.'

Finally, his sheep were attacked by the wolves. And this happen because he lied so no one believed in him. THE END.