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/ 5 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. 



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