The Cock and the Pearl


3.12. THE COCK AND THE PEARL. A young Cock, while seeking for food on a dunghill, found a Pearl, and exclaimed: “What a fine thing are you to be lying in so unseemly a place. If anyone sensible of your value had espied you here, you would long ago have returned to your former brilliancy. And it is I who have found you, I to whom food is far preferable! I can be of no use to you or you to me.”
This I relate for those who have no relish for me. [more info]

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