Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Thieves and the Cock
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THE THIEVES AND THE COCK.
Some Thieves broke into a house, and found nothing but a Cock, whom they stole, and got off as fast as they could. On arriving at home they proceeded to kill the Cock, who thus pleaded for his life: "Pray spare me; I am very serviceable to men. I wake them up in the night to their work." "That is the very reason why we must the more kill you," they replied; "for when you wake your neighbours, you entirely put an end to our business."
The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.