The Vain Jackdaw

Once there was a jackdaw .He was hungry and was flying about in search of food. He came to a field. There he saw a party of peacocks eating corn in a field of paddy. He also tried to enter the field but there were so many peacocks that he had not the courage to enter it.

He, by chance, saw some beautiful peacock feathers lying in a corner of the field. He picked them up and fixed them among his own feathers. He now felt as proud as a peacock. He entered the same field and began to eat corn along with the other peacocks.

For some time, the peacocks took no notice of the impostor. Soon dark clouds appeared in the sky .At the sight of black clouds, the peacocks began to croak. The jackdaw, in the guise of a peacock, also followed suit. He began to caw. He was found out what he really was. The peacocks fell upon him in a body and tore him to pieces. The jackdaw lay dead on the spot. The trickster was punished for his efforts to deceive others.

Therefore the moral is ‘Borrowed garments never fit well’.