The Woman and Her Hen

A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often

pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at

last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double

allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and

never once laid another egg.

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