The Woman and the Golden Egg

From "Wonder-World : A Collection Of Fairy Tales"
Translated from the French, German and Danish
L. Richter, Oscar Pletsch & al.
Pub. George Bell & Sons, 1875
General Books, 2009

The Goose that laid the Golden Egg

A poor woman was gathering fuel-fallen branches ; she bore them upon her back, and carried her little child at her breast, and was now on her way home. She saw the golden swan, the Swan of Good Fortune, spring up from the rushy banks. 

What was that gleaming there ? A golden egg - it was still warm. She laid it in her bosom, and the warmth remained ; there was certainly life in the egg. Yes, there was a pecking inside the shell ; she heard it ; and thought it was her own heart that was beating.

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This fable is quite different from the Aesop's Fable.