Gold or Corn?

Gold or Corn? One day, a very hungry rooster was searching for food. He was having no luck. It was getting late. But, no matter how hard he scratched the ground, the rooster could not find anything to eat. Soon, the rooster struck something with his feet. " What is this?” he wondered. “ Please let it be food. I really MUST eat, or I shall die. ” He scratched again quickly, eager to uncover what was hidden in the ground. To his disappointment, he found a piece of gold. The rooster stood sadly, looking at the big piece of shiny gold. What good is gold to a rooster?If a human finds gold, he sells it for a fortune. But a rooster cannot do anything with it.

The rooster walked away thinking, " Gold has no value to me. I would trade all the gold in a king's castle for one small kernel of corn. "