A shepherd has a very loyal dog

　A shepherd had a very loyal dog called Sultan. The sultan was now so old that even his teeth had fallen out. One day the shepherd and his wife were standing in front of the house, and the shepherd said, "I am going to kill the old Sultan tomorrow morning because he is no longer useful." But the wife said, "Please keep this poor dog, it has served us faithfully for many years and we should continue to provide for it for as long as it lives." The shepherd retorted to her, "But what can we do for us by keeping it? He doesn't have a single tooth in his mouth, and thieves don't care about him. You're right, he did a lot of things for us, but that's how he earned his living, and we didn't treat him badly! It's better to kill it tomorrow, the way it is now."　　The poor sultan was lying not far from them, and he heard all this conversation between the shepherd and his wife and was very much frightened at the thought that tomorrow would be the end of him. In the evening, he went to his good friend the wolf, who lived in the forest, and told him all about himself, saying that his master was going to kill him tomorrow. The wolf listened to him and said, "Don't panic yet, I will give you a good idea. Your masters take their children to work in the field every morning, as you know. When they work, they will put the children in the shade under the fence. Tomorrow morning you squat near the child and act as if you were looking after it, and when I come out of the forest and take it away, you must act as if you were desperately chasing me, and I will act as if I were frightened and drop it and run away. Then you can take the child back. After this mess, your owners will be very grateful to you for saving their child, and they will keep you and continue to provide for you." The dogs greatly appreciated this solution.　　Early the next morning, they proceeded as planned, and the wolf had just carried the child away for a short distance when the shepherd and his wife cried out in panic. At that moment, the old sultan jumped up and strove after the wolf, and soon caught up with him and helped his master and mistress to save the poor little one. Seeing that the child was safe and sound, the shepherd patted the sultan's head and said, "Old sultan, you saved our child from the wolf's mouth, I will not kill you anymore, but will feed you well and give you a lot of things to eat." After saying that, he turned to his wife and said, "Go! Go home, make a good meal for the old sultan, and make him a nest out of my old cushions to sleep in, so that he can live a better life." From then on, the sultan finally got what he wanted and lived a life that was favored by his master's family.　　Soon the wolf came to congratulate the sultan and said to him, "My good friend, now you should do me a favor, for I have not had a full meal for a long time, so please turn your head away when I catch and eat your master's fat sheep, and just pretend not to see it." The Sultan said, "That won't do, I have to be faithful to my master." When the wolf heard this, he thought it was just telling jokes and would not take the matter seriously. In the evening, it came and prepared to catch a sheep for a meal, but the sultan told his master about the wolf's intention. The master hid behind the door of the sheep pen and waited for the arrival of the wolf. After the wolf came, the master was busy looking for a fat sheep when he hit him hard on the back with a sullen stick, and even the wool on his back fell off a big pinch, and the wolf fled in haste.　　After receiving this stick, the wolf was so angry that it called the sultan "an old mongrel" and vowed to take revenge on him. The next morning, the wolf sent the wild boar to challenge the sultan to go to the forest and settle the matter between them using a duel. At this moment, the sultan could not find a second helper except a three-legged crippled cat from his master's house, and he had to ask the cat to go with him. The poor cat could not walk easily with its lame leg, so it held its tail up to balance itself.　　The wolf and the boar first waited for the sultan on the road, and when they found each other, they saw the cat's long tail in the air from afar and thought it was a knife the cat had brought to help the sultan in the duel. The cat walked with a limp, and they thought that with each limp the cat had picked up a stone that was ready to be thrown at them. Seeing this, they both got scared in their hearts and beat a retreat, saying it was better to cancel the duel. Having said this, the boar hastily hid himself in a bush, and the wolf jumped to a large tree. The Sultan and the cat soon came over and looked around, wondering how they had not yet come. However, the boar had not yet hidden completely, its ears were still exposed outside the bush, and when its ears wiggled gently, the cat, sensing something wiggling in the bush, thought it was a mouse, jumped up and pounced on it, biting and scratching. The boar could not stand it, it was jumping and screaming, while running away, while shouting: "Look at the tree, that's the one sitting up there is the one you are looking for." The Sultan and the cat looked up the tree together, and then they saw the wolf sitting on the branch, and they called him a coward and forbade him to come down. The wolf was so ashamed that he promised to make peace with Sufan, and thus he and the old sultan became good friends again.