The Peacock and the Crane.

There was a peacock who often boasted about his beauty. 

Everyday he walked to the banks of a large lake and looked his own reflections and said "Oh! What a beautiful bird I am! Look at my colourful tail". 

Once the peacock saw a crane on the banks of the lake. 

He said with a sneer to the crane, "What a colourless bird you are! You have no beautiful and colourful feathers like mine". 

The crane replied, "Of course! I don't have beautiful feathers. But, my feathers can make me fly across the lake. Can your feathers make you fly?" 

There was no reply from the peacock.