Ron Reads Boring Books

Farmyard Philosophy

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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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Speaker 1:

Hello, are you tired? You will be tired, yes, you will be. We're continuing our series of boring reads. We're reading Aesop's Fables, and this fable is called the Cock and the Pearl. I repeat, the Cock and the Pearl. Let's begin. A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shining amid the straw. Ho Ho Quoth he that's for me and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be? But a pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard. You might be a treasure quoth, master Cock. Treasure quoth, master Cock, to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barleycorn than a pack of pearls. Precious things are for those that can prize them. This has been the Cock and the Pearl by Aesop. Please a five-star rating if you will subscribe, share, leave a review. Thank you, goodbye.