Aesop's tales #
25 - The Cock and the Jewel
A Cock was
busily scratching and scraping about to find something to eat for himself and
his family, when he happened to turn up a precious jewel that had been lost by
its owner.
"Aha!"
said the Cock. "No doubt you are very costly and he who lost you would
give a great deal to find you. But as for me, I would choose a single grain of
barley corn before all the jewels in the world."
Moral: Precious
things are without value to those who cannot prize them.
