A peacock was very vain. He always boasted about his beautiful looks. Everyday he would go to the bank of a river. He would stand there and admire his own reflection in the water. He would say, "Just look at my tail! Look at the colours in my feathers! Look at ME! I must be the most beautiful bird in the world." One day the peacock saw a crane on the bank. He looked at it and turned his face away. Then he rudely said to the crane. "What a colourless bird you are! Your feathers look so plain and dull." The crane said, "Your feathers are surely beautiful and mine are not. But so what ? With your feathers you cannot fly very high, while my feathers can carry me high up in the sky."