short story on the golden egg in English with moral
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Once upon a time, there lived a cloth merchant in a village with his wife and two children. They were indeed quite well-off. They had a beautiful hen which laid an egg every day. It was not an ordinary egg, rather, a golden egg. But the man was not satisfied with what he used to get daily. He was a get rich-trice kind of a person.
The man wanted to get all the golden eggs from his hen at one single go. So, one day he thought hard and at last clicked upon a plan. He decided to kill the hen and get all the eggs together.
So, the next day when the hen laid a golden egg, the man caught hold of it, took a sharp knife, chopped off its neck and cut its body open. There was nothing but blood all around & no trace of any egg at all. He was highly grieved because now he would not get even one single egg.
His life was going on smoothly with one egg a day but now, he himself made his life miserable. The outcome of his greed was that he started becoming poorer & poorer day by day and ultimately became a pauper. How jinxed and how much foolish he was.
Moral: One who desires more, loses all. One should remain satisfied with what one gets.
The Golden Egg
Once upon a time there lived a poor farmer. He toiled from morning to dusk. Taking pity on him the Goddess of Fortune granted him a gift. The gift was a red hen which would lay a golden egg a day.
On the first day the farmer was surprised to see a golden egg. He took it to the goldsmith and got handsomely paid. With the money the farmer ate a hearty meal and bought many clothes.
With the next day's golden egg he renovated his house. In the coming days he began to lead his life as a wealthy man.
But wealth brought with it greed. The humble farmer now became a proud and greedy man. He now wanted a big mansion bustling with servants at his service. So he caught hold of the red hen and split it open hoping to extract all the golden eggs at one time. This ruined his fate. All was lost and he was reduced to the plight of the poor farmer again.
Moral: "One should never be greedy"