FABLES. 



THE PARTRIDGE AND THE COCKS. 



A Man having caught a Partridge, plucked the 

 feathers out of one of its wings, and turned it into 

 a little yard where he kept Game Cocks. The 

 Cocks led the poor bird a sad life, continually peck- 

 ing at and driving it away from the- meat. This 

 treatment was taken the more unkindly, because 

 offered to a stranger; and the Partridge could not 

 help concluding that they were the most uncivil 

 inhospitable people he had ever met with. But 

 observing how very frequently they quarrelled and 

 fought with each other, he comforted himself with 

 reflecting, that it w r as no wonder they were so cruel 

 to him, since they showed the same disposition to 

 each other. 



APPLICATION. 



No peace is to be expected among those who are 

 naturally fierce, quarrelsome, and inhospitable; 



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