A Tale of the Crows

Some crows living in a banyan tree in a jungle Wanted to look themselves like peacocks, Wished to dance like peacock s in the rains . So they wore the fallen feathers of the peacocks If not available their artificial feathers. They claimed that their forefathers were peacocks . And named the banyan tree as Peacocktree Discarding the earlier name by their ancestors .. As the years rolled some nomadic peacocks In various forums inside and outside the jungle Claimed the Peacocktree and surrounding places As their ancestral home. They contended that , long ago The crows started migrating there from other places And identified themselves as descendants of peacocks. As their population increased much more Than that of peacocks in course of time They ousted the peacocks from their home . Some learned crows decried as fictitious The tale presented by the peacocks . That, Peacocktree was not the original name Of the tree they are living since long Nor the peacocks were forefathers of the crows As claimed by the crows long ago. The claim and counterclaim were going on.