Fable 285 - The Bird-catcher and the Partridge

A visitor turned up rather late at the house of a bird-catcher. Since the host had no food to offer him, he went to fetch his own
partridge to have for supper. As he was on the point of killing her, she reproached him for his ingratitude:
‘Have I not been most useful in calling the birds of my own tribe and delivering them up to you? And now you want to kill me?’
‘All the more reason to sacrifice you,’ the bird-catcher replied, ‘since you have not even had mercy on your own kindred.’

This fable shows that those who betray their parents are odious not only to their victims, but also
to those to whom they deliver them up.