The Owls and the King's Hawk

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A royal hawk alighted for a time on the wall of a ruin inhabited by owls. The owls feared him. He said, "This may seem a prosperous place to you, but my place is upon the wrist of a king.'

Some of the owls shouted to others, "Do not believe him." He is using guile to steal our home."

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