Just as a great Bear rushed to seize a stray kid, a Lion leaped from another direction upon the same prey. There he would find better fare than briny water and sand mites. The father died, and no sooner was he in his grave than the sons set to work digging with all their might, turning up every foot of ground with their spades, and going over the whole farm two or three times. What caught his attention this time and made him stop for a second look, was that the lucky Crow held a bit of cheese in her beak. That is a Jackdaw, my children. So she opened her beak wide to utter her loudest caw, and down fell the cheese straight into the Fox's open mouth. When he saw how the Dog was acting, he seized a stick and drove him out of the stable with many a blow for his selfish behavior.
We are often not so eager for what we seek, after we have found it.