Peck by twetch#3898

14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch

Profit and Loss for the Bulbul and the Wren:
The bulbul gathered the small birds together and said,"When you peck away at produce in the vegetable fields or eat berries in the gardens,you raise your voices unnecessarily and make a big noise calling back

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Transaction: 33a7cbc5639054da7c94e9dd1b8dd9b3b88cad58dafb47a507ba4b75f8390d4d
Block: 622 406
Time: 2020-02-17T05:46:14Z
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Name in tx: twetch#3898

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twetch#3898 6.6y

14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch

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and forth to your friends. Because of this, men know that you've come and gather there in a flock, so they spread their nets and put down birdlime. In the the winter, when there's no food in the mountains, I come down to men's houses and, though i eat

twetch#3898 6.6y

14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch

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the fruit of the nanten at the edge of the veranda, the master of the house knows nothing about it. This is so amusing that I give a loud call of thanks just as I fly away, and return home. If by some chance birdlime has been spread there, I make no noise

twetch#3898 6.6y

14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch

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at all and, drawing myself back, lean quietly backward and hang upside down. That way, the trap remains above, my body is the only thing that falls down, and I secretly fly away. But for you, when birdlime is spread, the bunch of you get all upset, raise

twetch#3898 6.6y

14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch

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a ruckus, and start flapping around. For this reason you get completely covered in birdlime, can't move at all, and get caught. What a blunder!" This he said, quite clearly full of wisdom.

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twetch#3898 6.6y

14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch

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your back would get stuck to the bottom trap and you'd be in an unexpected fix. So even you, lord bulbul, would get upset, raise a ruckus, get covered with lime, and be caught the same as us. Men of shallow brains in the world are all like the bulbul.

twetch#3898 6.6y

14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch

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Once they achieve something using their own clever wit, they get proud and think they can continue on like that forever. How could anyone in the world be so stupid? A man will learn some skill, and after making doubly sure he's got it down, will use it

twetch#3898 6.6y

14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch

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over and over again in vain, never understanding that that skill has no become his enemy and that he is inviting disaster."

twetch#3898 6.6y

14q1qA…HJYE Key · twetch

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"Long ago in China there was a king Wu who crossed the Yang tse river and climbed up Monkey Mountain. When the monkeys saw this, they scattered and ran away in all four directions. There was one monkey among them that did not flee,

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