Read the excerpt from "the goatherd and the wild
goats
based on the details in the story, what is its primary
purpose?
a goatherd, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide,
found some wild goats mingled among them, and shut
them up together with his own for the night.
to educate children about how to treat others
to teach readers how goats are fed and cared for
to persuade children to be wary of strangers bearing
gifts
to entertain readers with a story about a foolish
goatherd
the next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not
take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was
obliged to keep them in the fold
he gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them
alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope
of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his
own
when the thaw set in, he led them all out to feed, and the
wild goats scampered away as fast as they could to the
mountains
the gatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving