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The Game-cocks and the Partridge.

A Man had two Game-cocks in his poultry yard. One day, by chance, hefell in with a tame Partridge for sale. He purchased it, and brought ithome that it might be reared with his Game-cocks. On its being put intothe poultry-yard, they struck at it, and followed it about, so that thePartridge was grievously troubled in mind, and supposed that he wasthus badly treated because he was a stranger. Not long afterwards he sawthe Cocks fighting together, and not separating before one had wellbeaten the other. He then said to himself: "I shall no longer distressmyself at being struck at by these Game-cocks, when I see that theycannot even refrain from quarreling with each other."

Strangers should avoid those who quarrel among themselves.

From Aesop's Fables