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21. The Boastful Rooster Loses His Life
Once there was a handsome rooster
Big of muscle, tall and strong,
Proud he was to frighten every
Other cock that came along.
One fine day a junior rooster
Cock-a-doodled in the yard!
Flash! The senior's claws attacked
And ran off junior, bruised &
scarred.
How he strutted then with victory
While the hens all clapped &
laughed!
Up he flew atop the hen house,
Bellowing like he was daft.
But just then a passing eagle
Heard the noise and swooped
right down
And carried off that bragging rooster
As a lunch for eagle town.
Down below, the Junior Rooster
Staggered forth and took a bow
While all the hens and chicks were clucking
How
"their HERO!"
he was now.
MORAL: Only fools praise themselves.
from the book Praying Your Story and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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