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A Cock was Strutting up and down the farmyard

among the hens when suddenly he espied something

shining amid the stray. “Ho! Ho! quoth he,

that ’s for me,” and soon rooted

it out from beneath the straw.

What did it turn out to be but a gem stone

that by some chance had been lost in the yard?

You may be a treasure”

quoth the Cock, to men that prize you,

but for me I would rather have a single rice-corn

than a peck of gem stones