Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch (Moral Story)

Once there lived a milkmaid in a small old town. Everyday early in the morning she milked the cow and sold the milk in the market. One day the milkmaid was going on her way to sell the milk.

She carried a pail on her head which was full of fresh milk. 

''Today the cow has given more milk than she normally does, how good it will be if she gives some more milk everyday. 

That means I will  get some extra money everyday.'' The milkmaid muttered happily.''With that money I will buy some hens.

 I will take a good care of the hens. The hens will lay eggs and when the eggs will hatch, healthy chickens will come out from those eggs.'' The young milkmaid couldn't stop thinking.'' When they grow up I will sell those chickens in the market at a good price and with that money I will buy more hens. More hens means more chickens and more money.Oh! I will become so rich.The  milkmaid continued making plans. ''I am young and beautiful and now I will become rich too. Every handsome young man of the town will want to marry me but I will say yes to the man that I like the most,

 she nodded her head to say yes, and as she moved her head the pail of milk fell down and broke and the milk flowed away. Poor milkmaid, she shouldn't have counted her chickens before hatching. 

Moral of the story-Don't count your chickens before they hatch.                                                       Aesop's fable re-told by -Aunt Mary

      Meaning of the moral- It is not good to make plans based on             something before it really happens.                                                     You May Also Like 

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Much wants more loses all ( Moral Story)

Once there was a dog who found a good big piece of cheese. The dog was so happy to get such nice food for his lunch. '' I should go to a nice and calm place and enjoy the cheese'', he thought.

He carried the piece of cheese in his mouth and went on. While he was going beside a stream the dog saw his reflection in the stream's water. 

Oh! There is another dog like me, he is also carrying a piece of cheese. I will have two pieces of cheese if I get that piece too.''
Thinking that he opened his mouth to catch the piece in the water, and as soon as the dog opened his mouth ,the piece of cheese that he held fell into the water. 

Ah! Due to his greed and the urge to get another piece the greedy dog lost his piece of cheese too.   
As they say '' Much wants more loses all.'' 
                        
                                  

                                           An Aesop's fable re-told by-Aunt Mary

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Greed is a Curse (Moral Story)

                               
Once upon a time in a village there lived a poor man with his wife. They kept some hens as pets and sold their eggs to earn their living. 
One day the man was returning home from the market and on the way he saw a goose wandering here and there, it looked like she had lost her way.
''How healthy and beautiful goose is this! It will be good for us if I take it home with me'', thought the man.  He caught the goose and took her home along with him. His wife became so glad to see the goose. 
''We have only hens as pets, now we have a goose too! So we can sell the goose eggs also. I am sure we can make some  good  money by selling the eggs''  Said the woman happily to her husband. 

Next morning when the man and his wife went in the backyard to collect the eggs, they were amazed to see that ''the goose had laid a golden egg.'' 

''Oh! this goose is not an ordinary goose! It is the golden goose because It laid a golden egg!'' They got so happy.The man sold the egg in the market and got a good amount of money. 

The goose laid a golden egg everyday and the man and his wife earned a lot of money by selling the golden eggs in the market.
They were no more poor and were living a very happy and good life because of that goose. 
But as they say ''Much wants more'' 
The man was not satisfied with what he had, he became greedy and wanted more money. 
He said to his wife,''The golden goose lays a golden egg everyday, it must have a big lump of gold in its inside... if we cut open the goose's stomach we can get that lump of gold and become very rich.'' He killed the goose and having done so he found that it was like any other goose there was no lump of gold inside it.
The foolish and greedy man who wanted to become rich all at once lost his everyday gain.The goose that laid the golden eggs for them  was dead and now they had no golden eggs any more.

Moral Of the story-''Greed is a curse''  
                                                                   An Aesop's Fable
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Once upon a time a man lived in a village with his three sons. All three of them were good, hardworking fellows. The old man  had no complaint with them except that they fought with each other all the time. 

                 'They fought for every single reason , big or small.'

                                        
 The poor old man always told them to stop fighting with each other and to stay united but all his efforts failed. He got so worried, ''My sons fight all the time even in front of my eyes, what will they do after I die! I have to do something about their quarrels. He continued thinking.
Next day he called his three sons, when they came he gave a bundle of sticks to his elder son, ''Come on let me see if you can break it or not ?''
The elder son tried but couldn't break the sticks.
 "Now it's your turn." , said the old man to his second son. ''Break it.''
The second son tried with all his strength to break the bundle but he failed too.
"Can you break these sticks my son ?" , asked the father to his youngest son .
The young man tried so hard but did not succeed.
Now the old man took back the bundle of sticks and separated the sticks and gave one stick each to his sons and told them to break it.
The three boys very easily broke the stick.
Listen my boys said the old man to his sons,'' You become as weak as a single stick when you are divided, but when you are united you are as strong as a bundle of sticks . So  if you want to be strong and powerful do not fight with each other and stay united.'' 
The three young men had now learnt a big lesson of life. They promised their father that they will not fight again and will maintain their unity as brothers in the upcoming life.

                                                                                     

    Moral of the story is-United we stand divided we fall

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