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JACKDAWS
[ Also see Animals Birds ]

The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair!
  Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there,
    Many a monk and many a friar,
      Many a knight and many a squire,
        With a great many more of lesser degree,--
          In sooth a goodly company;
            And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee.
              Never, I ween,
                Was a prouder seen,
                  Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams,
                    Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.
      - Richard Harris Barham,
        Ingoldsby Legends--The Jackdaw of Rheims

An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do."
      - Jonathan Swift,
        Thoughts on Various Subjects

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