The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter
The Goose and the Golden Egg
There was once a Countryman who possessed the most
wonderful Goose you can imagine,
for every day when he visited the
nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.
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The Goose and the Golden Egg
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The Countryman took the eggs
to market and soon began to get
rich. But it was not long before
he grew impatient with the Goose
because she gave him only a single
golden egg a day. He was not
getting rich fast enough.
Then one day, after he had
finished counting his money, the
idea came to him that he could
get all the golden eggs at once by
killing the Goose and cutting it
open. But when the deed was
done, not a single golden egg did
he find, and his precious Goose
was dead.
Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they have.
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