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"The Milkmaid and Her Pail"
A Fable
A farmer's daughter had been out to milk the cows. As she walked back to the house, carrying the pail on her head, she began to daydream after this fashion:
"The milk in this pail will soon have thick cream on it. I will make the cream into butter. I will sell the butter. With the money, I will buy a number of eggs. When these eggs are hatched, I will have a lot of chickens. I will sell their eggs.
And with the money, I will buy myself a beautiful new gown, which I will wear when I go to the fair. Then all the fine young fellows will look at me. But I will toss my head and have nothing to say to them."
Forgetting all about the pail of milk, she tossed her head. And down went the pail, milk and all.
Moral: Don't count your chickens before they have hatched.
or
Moral: Don't let your daydreams interfere with the work at hand.
What does this fable teach?
Question 10 options:
Don't let daydreams get in the way of the work at hand.
Butter doesn't always sell that well.
Flirting can get you into trouble.