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We continue our series of Boring Reads with Aesop's fable "The Cock and the Pearl," a short tale about a rooster who finds a precious pearl but would rather have a barleycorn instead.

• Part of our ongoing Boring Reads series designed to bore
• Features the classic Aesop's fable "The Cock and the Pearl"
• Tells the story of a cock who discovers a pearl while scratching in the farmyard
• Explores the idea that different beings value different things
• Presents the moral: "Precious things are for those that can prize them"
• Delivered in a deliberately captivating reading style

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, are you tired?
You will be tired, yes, youwill be.
We're continuing our series ofboring reads.
We're reading Aesop's Fables,and this fable is called the

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Cock and the Pearl.
I repeat, the Cock and thePearl.
Let's begin.
A cock was once strutting upand down the farmyard among the

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hens when suddenly he espiedsomething shining amid the straw
.
Ho Ho Quoth he that's for meand soon rooted it out from

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beneath the straw.
What did it turn out to be?
But a pearl that by some chancehad been lost in the yard.
You might be a treasure quoth,master Cock.
Treasure quoth, master Cock, tomen that prize you, but for me

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I would rather have a singlebarleycorn than a pack of pearls
.
Precious things are for thosethat can prize them.
This has been the Cock and thePearl by Aesop.

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