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