The Cock Pearl

cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard hens when suddenly he spied something shining amid the straw `Ho ! ho ! ' , `that's ,' and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw What did it turn out but Pearl that by some chance lost yard ? ` treasure,' said Master Cock, `to men that prize you, but rather have single barley-corn than peck of pearls '

Precious things are prize them