Fabel The Cock and the Pearl

Fable Story - The Cock and the Pearl

A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard

among the hens when suddenly he espied something shin-

ning 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.