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The Osprey and the Shark

by Clark Ashton Smith

December 18, 1929


An osprey who had sighted a plump turbot glided to the surface of the waves; and
at that very same moment a shark arose in pursuit of the self-same fish. The
turbot saw them both, and the shark and the osprey looked at each other.

"If I could fly like that, and plunge in from the heavens, nothing could
evade me," thought the shark.

"If I could swim and dive and dwell under water as he does, everything
would be at my mercy," thought the osprey.

In the meanwhile, the turbot had gotten too far away for either of them
to ever catch it.