The Goose With the Golden Eggs
The
Goose With the Golden Eggs
One day a countryman
going to the nest of his Goose found there an egg all yellow and glittering.
When he took it up it was as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because he thought a trick had been played upon him. But he took it home on
second thoughts, and soon found to his delight that it was an egg of pure gold.
Every morning the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his
eggs. As he grew rich he grew greedy, and thinking to get at once all the gold
the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing. Greed
oft o’er reaches itself.
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