The Biter Bit, part 1 · page 21 2101‘Yes, certainly, I know he would,’ answered Simon, ‘if you were tied up in this sack instead of me.’102Then getting out of the sack, he tied the confiding shepherd up in it instead, and at his request fastened it securely and drove the sheep on himself.103An hour had scarcely passed when the three rogues returned to the place where they had left Simon in the sack, and without opening it, one of them seized it and threw it into the river.104And so the poor shepherd was drowned instead of Mr. Simon!105The three rogues, having wreaked their vengeance, set out, for home.checked by a teacher106On their way they noticed a flock of sheep grazing not far from the road.107They longed to steal a few of the lambs, and approached the flock, and were more than startled to recognise Mr. Simon, whom they had drowned in the river, as the shepherd who was looking after the sheep.108They asked him how he had managed to get out of the river, to which he replied:1 2← previousThe Enchanted Snakenext →The Biter Bit, part 2↑ back to The Green Fairy BookThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/page/2/