What is the central idea of this excerpt? Read the excerpt from "The Goatherd and the Wild
Goats."
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 Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in
leaving him, when during the storm he had taken more
care of them than of his own herd.
One of them, turning about, said to him: "That is the very
reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday
treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it
is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the
O The goatherd wants the wild goats to join his herd.
O The bad weather keeps all the goats in their
enclosure.
O The goatherd gives his own goats just enough food to
survive.
O The wild goats leave because the goatherd mistreats
his own gols.