Karl Kopple Weiss -- The Bird Story

This is a parable that Yitzchak Yaakov Karl Koppel used to tell as told over by his son, Markus Weiss in his broken immigrant English. It reads like a folk tale or moral story passed down through generations.
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A STORY VON IZOOK JAKOV WEISS MIT EMER G”T

Ons was a owner of a garde and a birt destroy a big
try in the garden after meny tims trying he catshut
the bird in hes anger he want to kill hem then a vou
cold the man let me alive then the owner agree to it
and he let hem go. the bird fly on a tree and sayd
owner I tich you 3 things and you be happy!
1. Dont be sorry for things you cant right it. Don’t
beliv on things what is unpasabel not pasabel.
2. Don’t try to get what you cant! he fly on a high treb
and said to the owner “You fool you let me out.
I got a dimond as big egg.” the owner gat verri
sorry and want to try to get hem in to try in to
try and the bird said you fool how fast you ferget
my 1 lesson remember these 3 things and you be happy
if you try to catsh me again, how can you believ
I gat a dimond as big as a egg I am only as big as on
haleggs. you wont catsh me again now! remember
this 3 things and you be happy.

how groing leightlich iz Izook Weiss
ein frides leben ruhrik wie der wald is
unser nahpammten die mumm in unsere sonne ho!