A singing bird was confined in a cage which
hung outside a window, and had a way of singing at night when all other birds
were asleep. One night a Bat came and clung to the bars of the cage, and asked the
Bird why she was silent by day and sang only at night. "I have a very good
reason for doing so," said the Bird. "It was once when I was singing
in the daytime that a fowler was attracted by my voice, and set his nets for me
and caught me. Since then I have never sung except by night." But the Bat
replied, "It is no use your doing that now when you are a prisoner: if
only you had done so before you were caught, you might still have been
free."
"Precautions
are useless after the crisis."
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