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The story relates how a farmer plants traps in his field to catch the <a href="/wiki/Crane_(bird)" title="Crane (bird)">cranes</a> and geese that are stealing the seeds he has sown. When he checks the traps, he finds among the other birds a <a href="/wiki/Stork" title="Stork">stork</a>, who pleads to be spared because it is harmless and has taken no part in the theft. The farmer replies that since it has been caught in the company of thieves, it must suffer the same fate. The moral of the story, which is announced beforehand in the oldest texts, is that associating with bad companions will lead to bad consequences. </p><p>Although the story line remains more or less constant, the fable has been differently titled. In the <a href="/wiki/Perry_Index" title="Perry Index">Perry Index</a>, where it is numbered 194, it is a fowler who has caught the stork in his nets.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his catalogue of the fables, Adrados refers simply to a bird-catcher and relates the story of a farmer,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as does the <a href="/wiki/Neo-Latin" title="Neo-Latin">Neo-Latin</a> poet <a href="/wiki/Hieronymus_Osius" title="Hieronymus Osius">Hieronymus Osius</a> (1564).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For <a href="/wiki/William_Caxton" title="William Caxton">William Caxton</a> (1484) he was a labourer<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a 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