Once upon a time , there lived a cock in a form . One day, he was roaming about in the farm . Suddenly, the COCK saw something shining on the ground. "What's that ?" thought the COCK.
He went to take a closer look . The object was round and white.
"Ah, that must be a barley corn! " the COCK smiled in his heart.
As he hastily picked up the corn in his beak , he felt that it was too hard to chew. Two hens perched nearby had been watching the COCK. They called out the COCK, "That's not a corn . That's a pearl, aprecious gem! "
The COCK instantly spitted out the pearl. Then he gave a scornful look at the pearl, and said , "Hunh ! It may be precious for men who treasure it .But to me it's nothing more than a waste, for it can't even satisfy my hunger. " And saying so , the cock turned away from there.
