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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