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The beauty contest of the birds
It happened so long ago. and the winner shall be a king of all birds. All the birds fussed over it. They said to each other, “After all you are the most beautiful, peacock.” “Well, the swan has some style!” “No, a king of the birds has to be good at singing. I think the spring bird is going to win.” Such a big fuss they’ve made. Each one of them tried their best to become beautiful, cleaned themselves and preened their fine feathers in a river. Only a jackdaw didn’t join the group. As he flew over the river feeling so sad, he found many feathers scattered on the ground. He said to himself, “I have an idea. I’m going to fool everybody with these feathers.” “What a beautiful and rare bird that is. I think I should make him the winner.” Then some bird got angry. The other birds did the same to jackdaw, took each one of their feather out of his body. Finally the jackdaw became dirtier and uglier than ever. The end One-point advice |
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