[Illustration: THE PARTRIDGE AND THE COCKS.]
A certain man, having taken a Partridge, plucked some of the feathers
out of its wings, and turned it into a little yard, where he kept game
Cocks. The Cocks, for awhile, made the poor bird lead a sad life,
continually pecking and driving it away from the meat. This treatment
was taken the more unkindly, because offered to a stranger; and the
Partridge could not but conclude them the most inhospitable uncivil
people he had ever met with. But at last, observing how frequently they
quarrelled and fought with each other, he comforted himself with this
reflection; that it was no wonder they were so cruel to him, since there
was so much bickering and animosity among themselves.