118. The
Eagle in the Hen's Nest
Once, an eagle had
laid some eggs on a tree. Under the same tree a hen had laid eggs during the
same period. One day, while the eagle had gone hunting, a bear climbed up the
tree to eat the eagle's eggs. Hardly had the bear finished three of the eggs
when the fourth one slipped off its hands and fell into the hen's nest. The hen
which lived under the tree saw the eagle's egg by the side of her eggs. She
felt pity on the eagle's egg, and decided to hatch it too. Soon the chicks
began to grow. The chicks and the eaglet played together. Within no time the
hen's chicks with the eagle's chick grew up. The eagle's chick never realized
that it was an eagle and not a hen. Considering it a hen, the eagle ate the
hen’s food, walked and ran like other hens and made sounds like hens. The eagle
never learnt to fly like other eagles and lived its whole life like a hen only.
Moral:
Company makes you the same as they are.
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