The Large Number Of Your Family, The Greater Your Cause Of Sorrow

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Once upon a time a Dove shut up in a cage and started to boast of the large number of the young ones which she had hatched recently. A Crow was hearing her boasting about a family. He said, "my good friend, stop boasting about this unseasonable boasting. The larger the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this prison house. 



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