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One day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found there an egg all yellow and glittering. When he took it up it was as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because he thought a trick had been played upon him. But he took it home on second thoughts, and soon found to his delight that it was an egg of pure gold. Every morning the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs. As he grew rich he grew greedy; and thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing.

The Moral of this story: Greed oft o'er reaches itself.

Egg Proverbs

Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. (Unknown)

It is one thing to cackle and another to lay an egg. (Ecuador)

He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens. (Russian)

An egg thief becomes a camel thief. (Persian)

Eggs must not quarrel with stones. (Jamaican)

A turtle lays thousands of eggs, nobody knows,
but when a hen lays an egg, the whole village know. (Malaysia)

Kill not the goose that lays the golden egg (Aesop)

Egg Clichés

walk on egg shells

put all your eggs in one basket

lay an egg

kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

go fry an egg

to have egg on your face

Egg Literature

Green Eggs & Ham by Dr Seuss (picture scramble)

Egg Social Studies

Russian History in an Eggshell

Oracle Eggs (lesson)
with handout and background