Grainger Museum

Ella Grainger

Better than Ten Birds in a Bush

Undated

Drawn with china paints on glazed tile surface and re-fired

6" x 6"

Grainger Museum Collection

Text of Poem

Better than ten birds in a bush
is one in the hand
That's a saying which
I can quite well understand
For ten birds in a bush
can make a great deal of fuss
but a bird in the hand
must be docile to us.

Ella Grainger (1889-1979)