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LABOURER lay listening to a Nightingale's song throughout the summer night. So pleased was he with it that the next night he set a trap for it and captured it. "Now that I have caught thee," he cried, "thou shalt always sing to me."
"We Nightingales never sing in a cage," said the bird.
"Then I'll eat thee," said the Labourer. "I have always heard say that nightingale on toast is a dainty morsel."
"Nay, kill me not," said the Nightingale; but let me free, and I'll tell thee three things far better worth than my poor body." The Labourer let him loose, and he flew up to a