The Brave Mother-Parrot

For the #RamadanReadathon at Twitter, I want to highlight some story collections that people might enjoy reading, featuring free full-text books online; here are all the books I've featured so far, including a 100-word story for each one too.

So, today's book is The Tooti Nameh or Tales of a Parrot, by Ziya'al-Din Nakhshabi; the name of the translator is not given. See details below, and here is a story from that collection:

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The Brave Mother-Parrot

A hunter cast his net over a parrot's nest.
"Play dead," said the parrot-mother. The chicks obeyed, and when the hunter cast them aside, they all flew away.
Enraged, he was going to kill the mother-bird when she said, "Don't kill me! I'm a skilled physician."
Impressed, the hunter took the parrot to the country's ailing king who paid him a fortune.
The parrot prescribed medicine for the king, and his health improved.
"Let me out of the cage and I'll finish the cure," said the parrot, and when the king opened the cage, she flew back to her chicks.

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You can find a longer version of that story, and many other stories besides, in the online book, which is available at the Internet Archive, Hathi Books, and Google Books.