An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Old Saws with New Readings [for the Saturday Press]

Armac. "Old Saws with New Readings [for the Saturday Press]." New York Saturday Press, December 23, 1865, 324-325.
Type
newspaper
Genre
commentary
Abstract

A refutation of the proverb: "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." The speaker claims that this saying breeds stagnation.