The Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of men, that they might rise betimes, for their labors.
When therefore thumbling recommenced his labors, they heard the money moving, and a sound of klink, klink, klink.
He would draw the coverlet closer round him, pull his nightcap over his eyes, and try to turn his thoughts from trade, and from the labors of the day, to olden times.
