“Crafty Parrot’s Journey to Freedom: A Merchant’s Tale”

Once a certain merchant was used to keep a parrot in a cage. He decided to travel to Hindustan for business. He asked the parrot if he had any message to send to his kinsmen in that country, and parrot desired him to tell them that he was kept confined in a cage. The merchant promised to deliver this message, and on reaching Hindustan, duly delivered it to the first flock of parrots he saw. ON hearing it one of them at once fell down dead. The merchant was annoyed with his own parrot for having such a fatal message, and on his return home sharply rebuked his parrot for doing so. But the parrot no sooner head the merchant's tale than he too fell dead in the cage. The merchant, after lamenting his death, took his corpse out of the care and threw it away; but, to his surprise, the corpse immediately recovered life, and flew away, explaining that the Hindustani parrot had only feigned death to suggest his way of escaping from confinement in a cage.