An oilman possessed a parrot which used to amuse him
with its agreeable prattle, and to watch his shop when he
went out. One day, when the parrot was alone in the shop,
a cat upset one of the oil-jars. When the oilman returned
home he thought that the parrot had done this mischief,
and in his anger he smote the parrot such a blow on the
head as made all its feathers drop off, and so stunned it that
it lost the power of speech for several days. But one day the
parrot saw a bald-headed man passing the shop, and recov-
ering its speech, it cried out, "Pray, whose oil-jar did you
upset?" The passers-by smiled at the parrot's mistake in con-
founding baldness caused by age with the loss of its own
feathers due to a blow.
Rumi
Image credit: Painter Alex Akindinov