The Gold Egg Story | Moral Stories For Kids

The Golden egg story in english with moral

Bashir became very happy to have a gold egg.

The golden goose summary:

Bashir was a poor man. He had brought up many hens in the house and lead his life by selling their  eggs. One day he bought a new hen after selling eggs in the city. He locked the hen in the cage as the sun set. Next morning, when Bashir opened the cage he became surprised to see that the new hen laid a gold egg.Bashir became very happy to have a gold egg.

Bashir had become worried what the people of village were talking about. 

Now the hen had been laying a gold egg daily. Bashir sold that egg in the city by which he got enough money. But he did not tell this secret to anybody. Now the financial conditions of Bashir had improved a lot and he bought a new house too. The days kept on passing. Now the people of the village suspected that from where Bashir had got the money? People were passing different comments on it. Bashir had become worried by listening what the people of village were talking about. He did not know how to satisfy people.

As the idea came to his mind, he took a sharp edged knife and slaughtered the hen.

The time passed and the people of the village became quite. Here Bashir daily got a gold egg in the morning. But now the greed to get more eggs was getting stronger inside his heart. One day he thought that the hen laid a gold egg daily why did I not slaughter the hen and got all the gold eggs at once. As the idea came to his mind, he took a sharp edged knife and slaughtered the hen.

Bashir's wife said, "You have committed a blunder now bear its consequences". 

But as Bashir slaughtered the hen he was shocked to find that there was not even a single gold egg. Bashir narrated the whole incident to his wife in distress. She said, "You have committed a blunder now bear its consequences". Bashir repented a lot on his foolishness but now the time had past. Because he had lost even that egg, by slaughtering the hen, which he daily got.

The golden goose moral lesson:

"Greed is a curse"