The Angler and the Little Fish

An angler a small salmon caught,

Who with much earnestness besought

That he would let her go: says she,

“What can you do with such as me!

Next year when grown a little bigger,

I in your bag might make a figure.”

The prudent man replied, “No, no;

Into my pouch, though small, you go.

A bird in hand is better far,

Than two that in the bushes are.”