A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

A hungry she-wolf decided the best way to get near a shepherd’s flock was incognito. Draping a sheep skin across her back, she headed down a rocky path into the valley below, and came unexpectedly on a shepherd headed the other direction. “Lulu! You naughty lamb!” The shepherd shouted, “I’ve been looking for you for hours! I told you what would happen the next time you wandered off from my flock.” Raising his staff, he instructed the she-wolf to kneel down on her front paws and to raise her rear into the air.

The she-wolf would had ran away, but the human carried a rifle and was known to be a crack shot. The wolf obeyed, happy that she had tucked her furry tail beneath the sheepskin, or the shepherd would had known she wasn’t a lamb.

The shepherd swung his staff, with all his force, leaving a trail of red lines all across the wolf’s rear, one blistering hot stripe below the next. He then swung the staff diagonally from left to right, crisscrossing the welts left from his first application of the staff, and then one final barrage, from right to left. The she-wolf howled and howled. Every inch of her rear, and down the back of her thighs were covered in welts, every one sizzling, burning like a campfire.

“Remember that, Lulu, THAT’S what happens to naughty lambs who wander away into the night. Now, follow me, back to the flock.” The second the shepherd turned his back, the she-wolf darted off in the opposite direction, headed as quickly as she could to the nearest river.

The shepherd smiled, when he heard the wolf retreating, and was walking back to the valley, when a frightened lamb appeared out of the darkness before him. The lamb said to the shepherd, with a voice tinged with fear, “Master. That wasn’t Lulu. I’m Lulu. And I didn’t just wander off. I got lost in the darkness. Please don’t punish me as severely as you did the lamb you mistook for me. I promise to never do that again.”

Reaching down, the shepherd tousled the sheep’s hair, and spoke to her lovingly, “Lulu, Thank Allah you’re saved, I’ve been searching for you for hours. And, of course, I won’t punish you. I would never harm a member of my flock. Now, let’s go home. There’s wolves out tonight. Some of them dressed in sheep’s clothing.”