A Jay venturing into a yard where Peacocks used to walk, found there a number of feathers which had fallen from the Peacocks when they were roaming.
He tied them all to his tail and appeared down towards the Peacocks.
When he came near them they soon discovered the cheat, and striding up to him pecked at him and plucked away his borrowed feathers.
So the Jay could do no better than go back to
the other Jays, who had watched his behaviour
from a distance; but they were equally annoyed
with him, and told him:
Moral: "It is not only fine feathers
that make fine birds."