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A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he spied something shining amid the straw. "Ho ! ho !" quoth he, "that's for me," and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard? "You may be a treasure," qouth Master Cock, "to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls... " Precious things are for those that can prize them" |
THE COCK AND THE PEARL |