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StoryTitle("caps", "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing") ?>
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once dressed himself in the skin of a Sheep, and
so got in among the flock,
where he killed a good many of them. At last the
Shepherd found him out, and hanged
him upon a tree as a warning to other wolves.
Some Shepherds going by saw the wolf, and thought it was a Sheep. They wondered why the Shepherd should hang a Sheep. So they asked him, and he answered: "I hang a Wolf when I catch him, even though he be dressed in a Sheep's clothes."