THe Golden Goose

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Once upon a time there was a goose who had
beautiful golden feathers. Not far away from this goose lived
a poor a very poor woman who had two daughters.
The goose saw that they had a hard time to
get along, and said he to himself, if I give
them one after another of my golden feathers, the mother

(00:23):
can sell them, and with the money they bring, she
and her daughters can live in comfort. So away, the
goose flew to the poor woman's house. Seeing the goose,
the woman said, why do you come here. We have
nothing to give you. But I have something to give you,

(00:46):
said the goose. I will give you my feathers, one
by one, and you can sell them for enough so
that you and your daughters can live in comfort. So saying,
the goose gave her one of his feathers, and then
flew away. From time to time he came back, each
time leaving another feather. The mother and her daughters sold

(01:09):
the beautiful feathers for enough money to keep them in comfort.
But one day the mother said to her daughters, let
us not trust this goose. Some day he may fly
away and never come back. Then we should be poor again.
Let us get all of his feathers. The very next
time he comes. The daughters said, this will hurt the goose.

(01:33):
We will not do such a thing. But the mother
was greedy. The next time the golden goose came, she
took hold of him with both hands and pulled out
every one of his feathers. Now the golden goose has
strange feathers. If his feathers are plucked out against his wish,

(01:54):
they no longer remain golden, but turn white and are
of no more value than chicken feathers. The new ones
that come in are not golden, but plain white. As
time went on, his feathers grew again, and then he
flew away to his home and never came back again.

(02:17):
End of the Golden Goose from the Dattaca tails