StoryTitle("caps", "The Hawk and the Nightingale") ?> InitialWords(0, "A Nightingale", "caps", "dropcap", "noindent") ?> sitting on the top of an oak, singing her evening song, was spied by a hungry Hawk, who swooped down and seized her. The frightened Nightingale prayed the Hawk to let her go.
"If you are hungry," said she, "why not catch some large bird? I am not big enough for even a luncheon."
"Do you happen to see many large birds flying about?" said the Hawk.
Page(25) ?> "You are the only bird I have seen to-day, and I should be foolish indeed to let you go for the sake of larger birds that are not in sight. A morsel is better than nothing."