2009
SE0925 : The Cock and the Jewel, Somerset House, Rawson Street, Halifax
taken 15 years ago, near to Halifax, Calderdale, England

The Cock and the Jewel, Somerset House, Rawson Street, Halifax
One of Aesop's fables. 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." - The ignorant despise what is precious only because they cannot understand it.