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Baby's Own Aesop (1887)

21. The Golden Eggs (Perry 87)

A golden egg, one every day,
That simpleton's Goose used to lay;
So he killed the poor thing,
Swifter fortune to bring,
And dined off his fortune that day.

GREED OVEREACHES ITSELF

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