The Peacock And The Crane
The peacock brags about his beauty.
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A Peacock spreading its gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and saying, “I am robed, like a king, in gold and purple and all the colors of the rainbow; while you have not a bit of color on your wings.” “True,” replied the Crane; “but I soar to the heights of heaven and lift up my voice to the stars, while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill.”
The moral of the story is: Fine feathers don’t make fine birds.
Wordchecker
- mock (verb): to laugh at and make fun of
- ridicule (verb): to make someone feel ridiculous (same as above)
- hue (noun): colour
- soar (verb): to go very high
- dunghill (noun): where animals excrete their waste
The Peacock and the Crane is one of the famous Aesop’s Fables. A “fable” is a short story, typically with animals as characters, telling a moral or lesson.
Read by Tara Benwell.
3 comments
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Janhavi Sonawane says:
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Irine says:
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askos andrew says:
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