AuthorsAesopAndersen Hans Christian   Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe)Austen, JaneCarus Titus Lucretius   Doyle, Arthur Ignatius ConanDumas, AlexandreEpictetus   EpicurusFa-Hien (Fa-hsien) Grimm Jacob and Wilhelm (Brothers Grimm)   Kafka Franz Kant ImmanuelMarcus Aurelius   Perrault CharlesSchopenhauer ArthurSeneca Lucius Annaeus   Surendranath DasguptaVerne, JulesLibrary
 
Home / Library / Authors / Aesop

The Woman and Her Hen

By AESOP

A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day.

She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley.

From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.


show options »   

Search inside:










  LATEST AUTHORS HEADLINES:
  More articles in: