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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