Wolf almost locked up in the stable by the shepherd. The dog: "What good to lock us up from the wolf when he is with us?"

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Wolf almost locked up in the stable by the shepherd. The dog: "What good to lock us up from the wolf when he is with us?"

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2172.2.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Wienert FFC LVI 68 (ET 327), 135 (ST 411)
general Halm Aesop No. 371.

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Filed under Shepherd shuts up the lion in the yard with the live-stock. He hopes to capture the lion, but loses all his beasts.

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Wolf locked up with the sheep

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