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THE PROUD CHICKEN
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pleases me. But what do I care? I should not care if there was never another chicken in the world but myself. I am king."
And he hopped up on a tree and sang some war songs. But suddenly an eagle who heard him, flew down and caught him in his talons and carried him away. And the chickens never saw their proud, quarrelsome king again.
Ee-Sze (Meaning): No position in life is so high that it gives the right to be proud and quarrelsome.
