Aesop's Fables: Townsend (1867)
234. The Gamecocks and the Partridge (Perry
23)
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.'
George Fyler Townsend's translation of the fables, first published in 1867, is
in the public domain and can be found at many websites, including Project
Gutenberg.
Illustrations come from: Aesop's Fables, by George Fyler Townsend, with
illustrations by Harrison Weir, 1867, at Google
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