A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): a Countryman grows rich from his Goose’s daily golden egg, but, impatient for more, he kills her to get all the eggs at once and finds none.
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Once there was a Countryman, a man who lived on a farm. He had the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, with soft white feathers and a bright orange beak.
Every day, the Countryman went to visit the Goose's nest. “Honk, honk!” said the Goose. And there in the straw lay a beautiful, glittering, golden egg!
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