The Mother and the Wolf – Aesop’s Fables
Aesop’s Fables has a large number of stories and some of them such as the Red riding hood, the honest woodcutter and many more are well known across the world. The story of the “The Mother and the Wolf” is the story of a silly wolf which believed everything that it overheard.
Story:
A silly wolf was very hungry and was searching for food. He was walking near a hut in the village when he heard a baby crying loudly.
The baby cried loudly, “WAAAAAAH, WAAAAAAH, WAAAAAAH!”
The mother was trying to console the baby and she rocked the baby backwards and forwards.
She then said to the baby, “Hush Baby, Hush baby. Stop your crying otherwise I will give you to the wolf.”
The silly wolf believed whatever he heard and was very happy. He was going to get a baby for lunch today and that too for free. He went near the window and sat down happily.
The baby did not stop crying. The baby cried and cried but the mother did not give the baby to the wolf. The wolf was waiting the entire day.
In the end of the day, the mother was putting the baby to sleep.
“Go to sleep, baby, go to sleep. Don’t worry about the wolf. Daddy is watching you. Our dogs are watching you. Daddy will kill the wolf if he is near you.”
The daddy and the dogs just saw the wolf at that very moment. The wolf had to run to save his own life from the man and the dogs.
What is the moral of the story?
The moral of the story “The Mother and the Wolf” is “Do not believe everything you hear.”
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Questions on “The Mother and the Wolf“
- Who are the main characters of the story?
- What did the mother say to the child who was crying loudly?
- Did the mother give the child to the wolf?
- What happens at the end of the story?
- Explain is the moral of the story?
Answers:
- The main characters of the story are a Mother and a Wolf
- She said to the baby, “Hush Baby, Hush baby. Stop your crying otherwise I will give you to the wolf.”
- The baby cried and cried but the mother did not give the baby to the wolf. The wolf was waiting the entire day.
- In the end of the day, the mother was putting the baby to sleep. The mother said to the child, “Don’t worry about the wolf. Daddy is watching you. Our dogs are watching you. Daddy will kill the wolf if he is near you.” The wolf ran away hearing that.
- The moral of the story is “Do not believe in everything you hear”
The Mother and the Wolf – PDF
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