The Gamecocks and the Partridge

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The Gamecocks and the Partridge
        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."