The Partridge and the Cockerels

A farmer who was more used to keeping cockerels added a partridge to their coop, and immediately they started attacking it. The poor bird thought he was being picked on, until he realised that the cockerels treated each other just the same. So he decided it was silly to get depressed just because badly-behaved people behave badly.

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