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Some of Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances

THE HAWK CHASING THE DOVE

Alfred Caldecott translation

A farmer holding a captured hawk.
A farmer holding a captured hawk.

THE HAWK CHASING THE DOVE.

A Hawk giving headlong chase to a Dove rushed after it into a farmstead, and was captured by one of the farm men. The Hawk began to coax the man to let him go, saying that he had never done him any harm. "No," rejoined the man; "nor had this Dove harmed you."

An art critic that has damaged an artist's painting with his pen, begs to not have his art essays cut up.
An art critic that has damaged an artist's painting with his pen, begs to not have his art essays cut up.
A swooping hawk
A swooping hawk
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