The Peacock And The Crane

The peacock brags about his beauty.

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A Peacock spreading its gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and saying, “I am robed, like a king, in gold and purple and all the colors of the rainbow; while you have not a bit of color on your wings.” “True,” replied the Crane; “but I soar to the heights of heaven and lift up my voice to the stars, while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill.”

The moral of the story is: Fine feathers don’t make fine birds.

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Wordchecker

• mock (verb): to laugh at and make fun of
• ridicule (verb): to make someone feel ridiculous (same as above)
• hue (noun): colour
• soar (verb): to go very high
• dunghill (noun): where animals excrete their waste

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The Peacock and the Crane is one of the famous Aesop’s Fables. A “fable” is a short story, typically with animals as characters, telling a moral or lesson.

Read by Tara Benwell.