The Seagull and The Kite

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The Seagull and The Kite

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

Townsend version

A seagull having bolted down too large a fish, burst its deep gullet-bag and lay down on the shore to die. A Kite saw him and exclaimed: "You richly deserve your fate; for a bird of the air has no business to seek its food from the sea."

Moral

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

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