They supposed that the Hen must contain a great lump of gold in its inside, and in order to get the gold they killed [her].

Having done so, they found to their surprise that the Hen differed in no respect from their other hens. The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived themselves of the gain of which they were assured day by day.

In early tellings, there is sometimes a commentary warning against greed rather than a pithy moral. It is only later that the morals most often quoted today began to appear.

The English idiom "Kill not the goose that lays the golden egg", [6] sometimes shortened to "killing the golden goose", derives from this fable.

It is generally used of a short-sighted action that destroys the profitability of an asset. Caxton's version of the story has the goose's owner demand that it lay two eggs a day; when it replied that it could not, the owner killed it.

A farmer, bent on doubling the profits from his land, Proceeded to set his soil a two-harvest demand. Too intent thus on profit, harm himself he must needs: Instead of corn, he now reaps corn-cockle and weeds.

His comment on this is that 'we should set Bounds to our Desires, and content our selves when we are well, for fear of losing what we had.

An Eastern analogue is found in the Suvannahamsa Jataka , [8] which appears in the fourth section of the Buddhist book of monastic discipline Vinaya.

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