The Goose with the Golden Eggs

A farmer had a special goose. Every morning, it laid one golden egg.

The farmer sold the eggs and became rich, one egg a day.

“One egg a day is too slow,” he thought. “There must be many golden eggs inside the goose!”

So he cut the goose open to take all the eggs at once.

But inside, there were no eggs at all. The goose was just a goose.

Now there were no more golden eggs — not even one a day.