StoryTitle("caps", "The Cock and the Jewel") ?> InitialWords(39, "A cock", "smallcaps", "nodropcap", "indent") ?> 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 barleycorn before all the jewels in the world."
Moral("Precious things are without value to those who cannot prize them.
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