A fowler, having spread his nets for cranes, watched his catch from a distance. A stork settled among the cranes, and the man ran up and caught her along with them. When she begged him to let her go, saying that far from harming people she was actually very useful to them, since she caught and ate snakes and other reptiles, the fowler replied, "Even granting that you are not wicked, you deserve punishment all the same for settling among the wicked."
We too should shun the company of wicked people, so that we are not taken for accomplices in their wickedness.Moral
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