The goose that laid golden eggs

Once upon a time in a village there lived a poor farmer with his wife. They had nothing but a little farm where they grew vegetables that they could eat. However, he managed to save a little money each time. He sold vegetables from his farm.

Eventually he saved up enough money to buy a goose. He took it home and made a nest for it to lay eggs.  The goose will produce eggs which he could use for selling eating and making bread, thought the farmer.

The next morning when he went to gather some eggs for his breakfast he lifted the goose and to his surprise the goose had laid a golden egg.

The next morning he found another egg and the next and next.

Slowly and steadily the farmer and his wife were becoming richer and richer.

One day farmer’s wife told him, if we could have all the golden eggs that are inside the goose, we could be richer much faster.

Farmer said” you are right we would not have to wait for the goose to lay her egg every day. So the couple killed the goose and cut her open.  They find that she was just like every other goose.

She had no golden eggs inside of her at all and they had no more golden eggs.

Now the farmer and his wife had lost the goose and they would never get any golden eggs again. 

So kids: - just like the couple suffered because they were greedy, you should be careful too. Because too much greed always leads to great loss