Saturday, September 07, 2002

The Cock and the Pearl

Aesop's Fables : 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!' 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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