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A Cock, scratching the ground for something to eat, turned up a Jewel that had by chance been dropped there. "Ho! " said he, "a fine thing you are, no doubt, and, had your owner found you, great would his joy have been. But for me! give me a single grain of corn before all the jewels in the world. "