Cobwebs from an Empty Skull

Some doves went to a hawk, and asked him to protect them from a kite.

“That I will,” was the cheerful reply; “and when I am admitted into the dovecote, I shall kill more of you in a day than the kite did in a century.  But of course you know this; you expect to be treated in the regular way.”

So he entered the dovecote, and began preparations for a general slaughter.  But the doves all set upon him and made exceedingly short work of him.  With his last breath he asked them why, being so formidable, they had not killed the kite.  They replied that they had never seen any kite.

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