A guest presented himself rather late at a fowler's house. The fowler, having nothing to offer him, went to his tame partridge, and was about to kill it, when it reproached him for his ingratitude: was it not very useful to him, calling the birds of its tribe and delivering them up to him? And he was going to kill it! "All the more reason to sacrifice you," he replied, "since you do not spare even those of your own tribe."
Those who betray their kin are hateful not only to their victims, but also to those to whom they deliver them.Moral
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