English Original
A man who loved his beautiful wife dearly was forced to leave her on important business. Before departing, he bought a remarkable parrot that could recount everything it witnessed. He placed it in his wife's room and asked her to care for it.
Upon his return, the parrot reported events that angered the husband, leading him to scold his wife. She discovered the parrot was the informant and plotted revenge.
The next time the husband left, she instructed her slaves to create a disturbance around the parrot's cage all night: one turned a hand-mill beneath it, another poured water from above, and a third flashed a mirror by candlelight before its eyes.
When the husband returned and asked for a report, the exhausted parrot said, "Good master, I suffered all night from lightning, thunder, and rain." Knowing the weather had been calm, the husband, convinced the bird was lying, threw it to the ground in a rage, killing it. He later regretted his haste when he learned the truth.
中文翻译
一位深爱着美丽妻子的丈夫因重要事务不得不离开。临行前，他买了一只非凡的鹦鹉，这只鹦鹉能复述它所目睹的一切。他将鹦鹉放在妻子的房间里，并嘱托她好生照看。
丈夫归来后，鹦鹉汇报了一些事情，令他勃然大怒，并因此责备了妻子。妻子发现告密者是鹦鹉后，便决心报复。
等到丈夫再次离家，她吩咐奴隶们整夜在鹦鹉笼子周围制造骚动：一人在笼下推磨，另一人从上方浇水，第三人则借着烛光在它眼前来回晃动镜子。
丈夫回来后询问情况，疲惫不堪的鹦鹉说道：“亲爱的主人，昨夜电闪雷鸣，暴雨倾盆，我备受折磨。”丈夫知道当晚并未下雨打雷，便认定鹦鹉在撒谎，盛怒之下将其摔在地上致死。后来得知真相后，他追悔莫及。