A Jackdaw, watching some Pigeons in a farmyard, envied how well they were fed, and determined to disguise himself as one of them.
He painted himself white and joined the flock; and, so long as he was silent, they never suspected that he was not a pigeon. But one day he started chattering, and they at once saw through his disguise and pecked him so unmercifully that he was glad to join his own kind again. But the other Jackdaws did not recognize him in his white dress, and would not let him feed with them, but drove him away: and so he became a homeless wanderer.
