Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Cock and the Jewel

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For other English-language translations of this work, see The Cock and the Jewel.

London: George Routledge and Sons, page 35


THE COCK AND THE JEWEL.

A Cock, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone; on which he said: "If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world."