{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes009.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes009.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes009.htm","text":"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.\"","title":"The Cock and the Jewel","type":"page"}