The Goose and the Golden Eggs

Once  upon  a  time,  a  farmer  lived  with  his  wife.  In  their  cottage,  they  had  a  goose  who  would  lay  one  golden  egg  every  day.  The  farmer  and  his  wife  were  mighty  pleased  because  of  this.  Every  morning  the  wife  would  set  out  with  her  basket  to  collect  all  the  eggs  from  the  hens  and  the  goose.  But  over  time  they  started  getting  greedier.  They  wondered  if  the  process  could  be  speeded  up.  They  were  very  upset  that  they  were  getting  just  one  golden  egg  daily.  They  wondered  that  if  the  goose  was  laying  golden  eggs,  its  insides  must  surely  be  made  of  gold  too.  They  imagined  getting  rich  as  they  would  get  all  the  gold  at  once.  So  they  caught  hold  of  the  poor  war  bird  and  killed  it.  Alas,  upon  opening  it,  they  didn't  find  any  gold.  And  the  insides  of  the  goose  were  like  that  of  any  other  bird.