a time there lived a cloth merchant in a village with his wife and two
children. They were indeed quite well-off. They had a beautiful hen which laid
an egg everyday. It was not an ordinary egg, rather, a golden egg. But the man
was not satisfied with what he used to get daily. He was a get rich-trice kind
of a person.
The man wanted to get all the golden eggs from his hen at one single go. So,
one day he thought hard and at last clicked upon a plan. He decided to kill the
hen and get all the eggs together.
So, the next day when the hen laid a golden egg, the man caught hold of it,
took a sharp knife, chopped off its neck and cut its body open.
There was nothing but blood all around & no trace of any egg at all. He was
highly grieved because now he would not get even one single egg.
His life was going on smoothly with one egg a day but now, he himself made his
life miserable. The outcome of his greed was that he started becoming poorer
& poorer day by day and ultimately became a pauper. How jinxed and how much
foolish he was.
So, the moral of the story is- one who desires more, looses all. One should
remain satisfied with what one gets.
from Kids Stories