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      The Jackdaw and the Doves 
    
    
      A 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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