| | The Jackdaw And The DovesA Jackdaw, seeing some Doves in a cote abundantly provided with food,
 painted himself white and joined them in order to share their plentiful
 maintenance. The Doves, as long as he was silent, supposed him to
 be one of themselves and admitted him to their cote. But when one
 day he forgot himself and began to chatter, they discovered his true
 character and drove him forth, pecking him with their beaks. Failing
 to obtain food among the Doves, he returned to the Jackdaws. They
 too, not recognizing him on account of his color. expelled him from
 living with them. So desiring two ends, he obtained neither. | 
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