Marytale
The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
- 2-3 min read
- 9 pages
- 4+
The goose that laid the golden eggs, Aesop's fable to read aloud. One gold egg a day is not fast enough for the man who owns her.
A man and his wife kept a goose, an ordinary grey goose in an ordinary yard, and one morning they found in her nest an egg of solid gold.
They could not believe it, and they took it to the town and sold it, and came home better off than they had ever been in their lives.
The next morning there was another one.
And the morning after that, and the morning after that. One gold egg a day, every day, and within a year the yard had a new fence and the house had a new roof and there was money in a box under the bed.
But a day is a long time to wait when you have got used to it. The man began going out to the nest before dawn, and standing there, and looking at the goose.
Text source: Fable by Aesop (6th century BC), public domain. The text was written anew for Marytale — it is not a reprint of anyone else's version.
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