The Cock and the Pearl
The Cock and the Pearl
A cock was once strutting
up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something
shinning amid the straw. ‘Ho! Ho!’ quote 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,’ quote 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.
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