Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons
THE HAWK, THE KITE, AND THE PIGEONS.
The Pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk to defend them. He at once consented. When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc, and slew a larger number of them in one day, than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year.
Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.