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.
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around the 6th century BCE, whose fables have endured for over two thousand years. He is renowned for distilling sharp moral truths into brief animal tales, and "The Woman and Her Hen" is a fine example of his gift for delivering a pointed lesson in under a hundred words.
