A man, having caught a jackdaw and tied its leg with a linen thread, gave it to his child. But the jackdaw, unable to resign itself to living among people, seized a moment of freedom to flee and returned to its nest. But the thread having wound itself around the branches, the bird could not fly off and, seeing itself about to die, said, "How wretched I am: for not enduring slavery among people, I have, without realising it, robbed myself of life."
*Those who try to escape a modest danger may stumble into a far greater one.Moral
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