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Soon afterwards the wolf came and wished him joy, and said, 'Now,

my good fellow, you must tell no tales, but turn your head the

other way when I want to taste one of the old shepherd's fine fat

sheep.' 'No,' said the Sultan; 'I will be true to my master.'

However, the wolf thought he was in joke, and came one night to

get a dainty morsel. But Sultan had told his master what the wolf

meant to do; so he laid wait for him behind the barn door, and

when the wolf was busy looking out for a good fat sheep, he had a

stout cudgel laid about his back, that combed his locks for him

finely.