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29. The Greedy Woman Overfeeds Her Hen
A woman once owned a perky hen
That laid a fine egg now and then,
And some she ate and some she
sold
And soon she'd saved a bag of
gold.
She thought:
That hen won't eat enough!
Suppose I feed her sweets and stuff!
She'll lay huge eggs like we
ain't seen,
And I'll get richer than the
QUEEN!
She put her greedy plan to work,
But soon that hen began to shirk,
Too fat she grew and full of
strife,
And laid no more eggs all her
life.
MORAL: The urge to exploit the natural world can destroy it.
from the book Prayers and Fables and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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