Library › Classical antiquity › Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables ยท 1 passage
A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: "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."
Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file cla/aesop/aes009.htm.
Ask a question