Jataka Quail Falcon

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A quail keeps to a ploughed field of clods and furrows that is its own ground. A falcon mocks it and stoops to seize it; the quail darts behind a great clod, and the falcon, striking at full speed, dashes itself to death against the earth. Moral: keep to your own ground, where even the strong cannot reach you. — Jataka tale