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Show Story of the Pearl The orientals have a pretty story accounting for the pearL A drop of water fell one day from a cloud into the sea. Ashamed and confused con-fused at finding itself in such an immensity of water, the drop of water exclaimed: "What am I in comparison with this great ocean!" Just then, a pearl oyster, rising to the sea, opening its shell to receive the rain, received the drop in its bosom, and the drop of rain became be-came a magnificent pearl thus was its humility the cause of it? elevation. |