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The fable is told very briefly by Aesop in Plutarch's The Banquet of the Seven Sages: "A wolf seeing some shepherds in a shelter eating a sheep, came near to them and said, 'What an uproar you would make if I were doing that!'" [1] Jean de la Fontaine based a long fable on the theme in which the wolf is close to repentance for its violent life until it comes upon the feasting shepherds and ...
The Dog and the Sheep is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 478 in the Perry Index. [1] Originally its subject was the consequence of bearing false witness. However, longer treatments of the story during the Middle Ages change the focus to deal with perversions of justice by the powerful at the expense of the poor.
Steal Wool is a 1957 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. [1] The short was released on June 8, 1957, and stars Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog. [2]Mel Blanc provided for the voices of all the characters in this cartoon; however, like all Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog shorts, this short is mostly composed of visual gags.
For prevention whereof we ought to consider that we are sent as sheep among wolves, whose innocence we ought to preserve, not having the tooth of malice." [3] Jerome: " He calls the Scribes and Pharisees who are the clergy of the Jews, wolves." [3] Hilary of Poitiers: " The wolves indeed are all such as should pursue the Apostles with mad fury ...
On other shepherds asking him why he had hanged a sheep, the shepherd answered: The skin is that of a sheep, but the activities were those of a wolf." Abstemius's comment on the story follows the Biblical interpretation: 'people should be judged not by their outward demeanor but by their works, for many in sheep's clothing do the work of wolves ...
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Sheep Ahoy is a 1954 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. [1] The short was released on December 11, 1954, and stars Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog. [2] Mel Blanc provided for the voices of all the characters in this cartoon, however, like all Sam Wolf and Ralph Sheepdog shorts, this short is mostly composed of visual gags.