The Partridge and the Cockerels

It’s hard when messed-up people treat you badly, but if you take it personally it only makes it worse.

Introduction

ONE day a man who kept cockerels was busy about his yard when a salesman came to the gate and offered him a tame partridge. So he bought it, and let it fend for itself among his other birds.

When the cockerels immediately pecked it and chased it, the partridge became very downcast, thinking it was all because he was a different kind of bird.

Soon, however, he noticed that the cockerels were always fighting each other, and did not leave off until at least one of them was stained with blood.

So he said to himself, “I am not going to let myself get depressed over their pecking, now that I see that they never let one another alone either.”

That is why sensible people readily put up with mistreatment by their neighbours, once they see that they do not spare even their own family.

Based on Aesop’s Fables as collected in the 1920s by French translator Émile Chambry.
Précis
A farmer who was more used to keeping cockerels added a partridge to their coop, and immediately they started attacking it. The poor bird thought he was being picked on, until he realised that the cockerels treated each other just the same. So he decided it was silly to get depressed just because badly-behaved people behave badly.
Sevens

Suggest answers to this question. See if you can limit one answer to exactly seven words.

How did the partridge come to live among cockerels?

Jigsaws

Express the ideas below in a single sentence, using different words as much as possible. Do not be satisfied with the first answer you think of; think of several, and choose the best.

A partridge shared a coop with some cockerels. The cockerels treated him badly. He became depressed.

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