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

thought, 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 often over reaches itself.