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"Oh dear one ! We are only birds of the jungle. What is our capacity ? What is there that we can give them ? Where is the question of a clotheless person twisting his clothes for drying after taking his bath ?”
The she-parrot contradicted him and said :
“Swami ! One who is without means is not necessarily poverty-stricken. To turn away one's face from hospitality is the greatest poverty. As you very well know, there are two devine trees on a mountain at a little distance from here. The person who eats the fruit of one of the trees would become a king within seven days. The person who eats the fruit of the other tree would get five gold mohurs every day. We can go there and return with those fruits before morning.”
The male-parrot said, “You have well reminded me about
