The Cock and The Pearl*

I've recently bought Aesop's Fables. I thought it would be nice to share these stories every month or so with you, since they are just so insightful. 

The versions of these fables are taken from "Aesop's Fables" by Aesop (Mar 2011) [here on Amazon]

Enjoy :)

Sx

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The Cock and the Pearl

A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hends whensuddenly 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.

*Aesop's Fables