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The Country Maid's Milk Pail Fable

A country maid was walking with a pail of milk on her head, dreaming about selling the milk to buy eggs to hatch chickens to sell at Christmas for a good price. She planned to use the money to buy a green dress to wear to the fair, where she would refuse all suitors. Lost in her fantasies, she tossed her head proudly and spilled all the milk on the ground.

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The Country Maid's Milk Pail Fable

A country maid was walking with a pail of milk on her head, dreaming about selling the milk to buy eggs to hatch chickens to sell at Christmas for a good price. She planned to use the money to buy a green dress to wear to the fair, where she would refuse all suitors. Lost in her fantasies, she tossed her head proudly and spilled all the milk on the ground.

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The

Country Maid
and her
Milk Pail

Created By
Kulsoom Ayyaz
A country Maid was walking slowly along
with a pail of milk upon her head.

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She was saying to herself: “The money for
which I shall sell this milk will buy me
three hundred eggs.

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These eggs will produce at least two
hundred and fifty chickens.

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The chickens will be fit to carry to market
about Christmas, when poultry always
brings a good price.

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By May-day I shall have money enough to
buy a new gown. Let me see—green suits
me; yes, it shall be green.

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In this dress I will go to the fair, where all
the young fellows will want me for a partner.
But I shall refuse every one of them.”

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By this time she was so full of her fancy
that she tossed her head proudly.

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Over went the pail, and all the milk was
spilled on the ground.

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Moral. Don’t count your chickens before
they are hatched.

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