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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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2007-8-31 09:13 AM - iquaz hvgzubd
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2003-11-10 02:51 PM - mimi
i mean, he wasn''t thoughtful of his actions
2003-11-10 02:50 PM -
cool
2003-7-10 11:35 AM - big dave
serves him bloody right for being so greedy.if that happened to me i would not cut the chook open thats for sure.
2001-11-16 04:09 PM - marion
terrifeiic
2001-11-14 04:29 PM - Jeronia Clark
Ithink that it was a really good story.

2001-11-12 06:03 PM - Shidera
I think the story was good.
2001-11-12 06:00 PM - Demillo Smith
It's about a man that thought he tricked by seeing a golden eggg.But then the next time he went out to see about the goose.And he got rich by selling the eggs.And he grew greddy;and was not thinking about the goose so he killed the goose and open it and wasn't a egg to first.
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