mmxgn@0: a cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw
mmxgn@0: ho
mmxgn@0: ho
mmxgn@0: quoth he
mmxgn@0: that 's for me
mmxgn@0: and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw
mmxgn@0: what did it turn out to be but a pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard
mmxgn@0: you may be a treasure
mmxgn@0: quoth master cock
mmxgn@0: to men that prize you but for me i would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls