The goose that laid the golden egg

There was once a man who owned a wonderful goose.Each day he went to the barnyard and said to the goose:”Where is my golden egg?”

   And every day the goose laid one shinning golden egg. Then the man took the egg to market and sold it for a great deal of money. And he and his family lived in comfort.

   But one day a neighbor said to the man:

“Why are you satisfied with one egg a day? Surely that goose must be lied with gold. Why not cut it open and get all the gold?”

 At first the man could not bring himself to kill the bird which had brought him such comfort. But at length his greed got the better of him.

 So he went to the barnyard and killed the goose that laid the golden eggs. Quickly he cut it open- and found just what you would find if you cut open an ordinary, every-day goose.

  Now there were no more golden eggs each morning, and the greedy farmer and his family had to work hard for their living the rest of their days.