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18. The Hunter Condemns a Traitorous Partridge
A hunter caught a partridge one fine day,
And the partridge screamed:
Friend! let me get away
And I'll become your decoy and your slave
So you'll catch all the partridges that you crave!
YOU VILLAIN!
said the hunter,
Now you'll die
For not just one but two good reasons why.
The first: you are my favorite "recipe,"
And second: punishment for treachery.
MORAL: Once we betray our friend to save ourselves, only a fool would trust us
in anything.
from the book Prayers and Fables and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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