By AesopReadOasis Step 2

Illustration by Milo Winter

The Boy was bored. It was not interesting staying in the fields all day and watching sheep. The sheep always did the same thing. They ate grass. They walked around, and they ate more grass. After that, they walked around some more, and then they ate more grass. They were just boring sheep.

The Boy had an idea to make things interesting. “It would be great fun to play a joke on the villagers,” he said out loud to himself. As he spoke, ...