A Flock of Birds....A Folktale from India
(Najamuddin Ghanghro, Karachi(original from Larkana))
There was once a flock of birds
peacefully pecking seeds under a tree. A hunter came along and threw a
heavy net over them. He said, "Aha! Now I have my dinner!"
All at once the birds began to flap their wings. Up, up they rose into the air,
taking the net with them. They came down on the tree and, as the net
snagged in the tree's branches, the birds flew out from under it to
freedom.
The hunter looked on in amazement, scratched his head and muttered, "As long as
those birds cooperate with one another like that, I'll never be able to
capture them! Each one of those birds is so frail and yet, together they can
lift the net."