The Jay and the Peacocks

The Jay and the Peacocks

A Jay venturing into a yard where Peacocks used to walk, found
there a number of feathers which had fallen from the 
Peacocks when they were moulting.

He tied them all to his tail and strutted down 
towards the Peacocks.

When he came near them they soon discovered the cheat, 
and striding up to him pecked at him and plucked away his 
borrowed feathers.

So the Jay could do no better than go back to the other Jays, 
who had watched his behaviour from a distance

but they were equally annoyed with him, and told him:


	"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."