JACKDAW

A JACKDAW, seeing some Doves in a cote abundantly provided with food, painted himself white and joined them in order to share their plentiful maintenance.

Fables Aesop 1880

A HALF-FAMISHED JACKDAW seated himself on a fig-tree, which had produced some fruit entirely out of season, and waited in the hope that the figs would ripen.

Fables Aesop 1880

A JACKDAW, observing that the pigeons in a certain dove-cote lived well, and wanted for nothing, white-washed his feathers like a dove, and went and lived among them.

Original Acrostics on all the States and Presidents of the United States, and Various Other Subjects, Religious, Political, and Personal 1861