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“ Anything to please you , ” says the miller . “ We can try . ” They tie the donkey’s legs together with ropes . They put a long pole between his legs . Then they lift the pole onto their shoulders . The donkey hangs from the pole with his feet in the air . There is a bridge near the gate of the town . The miller and his son start to cross it with the donkey . Soon a lot of people come to see . They point and laugh . The donkey does not like the noise . He kicks and kicks . The ropes break , and he falls off the pole and into the river . The water carries him away . The miller’s face is red . He takes his son and goes back home . “ I wanted to please everyone , ” he says on the way . “ And what happened ? I pleased nobody , and I lost my donkey too . ” Moral : Try to please everyone , and you will please no one . IX . The Hen and the Golden Eggs A poor man and his wife live in a little house in the country . They have some hens . One of the hens is very special . Every day she lays an egg . But it is not a normal egg . It is a golden egg ! Every morning , the man goes to the hen house . “ Look , wife ! Another golden egg ! ” he says . The man and his wife sell the golden eggs in the town . Every week they have a little more money . But they want more , and they want it now . “ One egg every day . That is so slow , ” says the man one evening . Then he has an idea . “ Wife , listen , ” he says . “ The hen gives us gold every day . So there must be a lot of gold inside her . A big piece of gold ! ” “ Yes , you are right ! ” says his wife . “ Let us take all the gold now . Then we will be rich today , not in ten years . ” So they kill the hen and look inside . But there is no gold . Inside , the hen is just like all their other hens . The man and his wife look at each other . “ What have we done ? ” says the wife . She starts to cry . “ Now there will be no more golden eggs . ” “ We wanted all the gold at once , ” says the man . “ And now we have lost our special hen . ” Moral : If you want to be rich all at once , you may lose what you get every day . X . The Fox and the Grapes It is a hot day at the end of summer . A fox is walking along a road . She has no food , and she is very hungry . Then she sees a vine . The vine climbs high up a wooden frame . Big bunches of black grapes hang from it . The grapes are ripe and sweet and full of juice . “ Oh , what lovely grapes ! ” says the fox . “ Just right for a hungry fox like me . ” But the grapes are very high . The fox stands on her back legs . She puts her nose up as high as she can . But she cannot reach them .
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