Aesop's Fables
A
MAN had two
Gamecocks in his
poultry-yard. One day by chance he found a tame
Partridge for sale. He purchased it and brought it home to be
reared with his Gamecocks. When the Partridge was put into the poultry-yard,
they struck at it and followed it about, so that the Partridge became
grievously troubled and supposed that he was thus
evilly treated because he was a
stranger. Not long
afterwards he saw the Cocks fighting together and not separating before one had well beaten the other. He then said to himself, "I shall no longer
distress myself at being struck at by these Gamecocks, when I see that they cannot even refrain from
quarreling with each other."