Fable
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.
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.
Moral
- Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they
have.
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