A COCK was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied 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,” quoth 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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