The Cock and the Jewel, Somerset House, Rawson Street, Halifax
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The Cock and the Jewel, Somerset House, Rawson Street, Halifax
Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 13 Sep 2009
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.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.72133
Longitude
-1.863575