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The Hawk and the Nightingale.

A Nightingale, sitting aloft upon an oak, was seen by a Hawk, who made aswoop down, and seized him. The Nightingale earnestly besought the Hawkto let him go, saying that he was not big enough to satisfy the hungerof a Hawk, who ought to pursue the larger birds. The Hawk said: "Ishould indeed have lost my senses if I should let go food ready to myhand, for the sake of pursuing birds which are not yet even withinsight."

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

From Aesop's Fables