Altın Yumurtlayan Tavuk (Kaz) / The Goose With the Golden Egg
Bir duvar resmi - A wall painting
Source: The Circle of Ancient Iranian
Adamın birinin güzel bir tavuğu varmış, her gün bir altın yumurta yumurtlarmış. "Bu hayvanın karnında bir altın madeni olacak!" demiş, bıçağını kaptığı gibi kesmiş, içine bir de bakmış ki öteki tavuklarınki nasılsa, o da öyle. Birdenbire zengin olmaya kalkmış, o yüzden elinde olanı da yitirmiş.
Elimizdeki ile yetinip daha çoğuna göz dikmeyelim; bu masal onun için söylenmiş.
Aisopos (Ezop) Masallar
Cumhuriyet Yayınları Dünya Klasikleri, 1998, İstanbul
Güneş İlhan, 09.12.2012, İstanbul
One
day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found there an egg all
yellow and glittering. When he took it up it was as heavy as lead and he
was going to throw it away, because he thought a trick had been played
upon him. But he took it home on second thoughts, and soon found to his
delight that it was an egg of pure gold. Every morning the same thing
occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs. As he grew rich he
grew greedy; and thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could
give, he killed it and opened it only to find,—nothing.
“GREED
OFT O’ERREACHES ITSELF.”
Æsop (Sixth century B.C.) Fables
The Harvard Classics, 1909–14, New York
Güneş İlhan, 09.12.2012, İstanbul