The Shepherd and the Wolf Reared with the Dogs

A shepherd, having found a newborn wolf cub, took it away and reared it with his dogs. When the cub had grown big, if sometimes a wolf carried off a sheep, he gave chase to it too, along with the dogs. When sometimes the dogs could not catch the wolf and so turned back, he followed it until he caught up with it, and had, as a wolf, his share of the prey; then he took the way home. If a wolf carried off no sheep from the fold, he himself killed one in secret and ate it with the dogs. But in the end the shepherd guessed and understood what was going on, and killed the wolf by hanging it from a tree.