The Farmer and the Stork

• A Farmer placed nets on his newly-sown ploughlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.
• With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life.
• "Pray save me, Master," he said, "and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity.
• Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother.
• Look too, at my feathers-- they are not the least like those of a Crane." The Farmer laughed aloud and said,
• "It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company."
• Birds of a feather flock together. The End.