The Poor man and the Goose:
Once in a village lived a poor man. He had a goose. It laid eggs. But these eggs were different from the eggs laid by other eggs.
The poor man’s goose laid a golden egg everyday.The poor man took the egg to the town and sold it.
He got a lot of money by selling the golden egg. He was a happy man.
One day he said to himself, “I get one golden egg only everyday. Why not I have all the eggs at a time. Then I will become very rich. So, I will kill the goose and take all the eggs.”
And so the poor man killed the goose.
And what did he find?
The goose was like any other goose. He could not find a single golden egg. The goose died.
Moral: Greed leads to grief.
The Greedy Dog:
Once there lived a dog. He was very greedy. There were many times that he had to pay for his greed. Each time the dog promised himself, “I have learnt my lesson. Now I will never be greedy again.” But he soon forgot his promises and was as greedy as ever.
One afternoon, the dog was terribly hungry. He decided to go look for something to eat. Just outside his house, there was a bridge. “I will go and look for food on the other side of the bridge. The food there is definitely better,” he thought to himself.
He walked across the wooden bridge and started sniffing around for food. Suddenly, he spotted a bone lying at a distance. “Ah, I am in luck. This looks a delicious bone,” he said.
Without wasting any time, the hungry dog picked up the bone and was just about to eat it, when he thought, “Somebody might see me here with this bone and then I will have to share it with them. So, I had better go home and eat it.” Holding the bone in his mouth, he ran towards his house.
While crossing the wooden bridge, the dog looked down into the river. There he saw his own reflection. The foolish dog mistook it for another dog. “There is another dog in the water with bone in its mouth,” he thought. Greedy, as he was, he thought, “How nice it would be to snatch that piece of bone as well. Then, I will have two bones.”
So, the greedy dog looked at his reflection and growled, without opening his mouth. The reflection growled back, too. This made the dog angry. He looked down at his reflection and barked, “Woof! Woof!” As he opened his mouth, the bone in his mouth fell into the river. It was only when the water splashed that the greedy dog realized ,what he had seen was nothing but his own reflection and not another dog. But it was too late. He had lost the piece of bone..
Moral: Too much greed results in nothing.
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