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.
_Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they have._
[Illustration: THE GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN EGG]
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