Long time ago a remote village, in central China, was inhabited mainly by farmers and hunters. One day, a poor farmer lost his entire livestock because of a flood. He prayed hard to God for help or his family would die of starvation. A few days later, an old man with a long grey beard, passing by his house, took a pity on the farmer. He gave him a goose and said “ I don’t have any expensive thing to give you and hope this goose will help you to ease your hardship.” A week later to his surprise the farmer found an egg in his yard. It was not an ordinary egg. It was a golden egg. He was suddenly filled with joy. Thereafter, his livelihood had rapidly improved but the farmer had forgotten his earlier hardship. He became lazy, arrogant and spendthrift. Strangely, the goose only laid one golden egg every six months. The greedy farmer lost...
1st Herb Waffle woke up one morning to find that all his neighbors were standing on the sidewalk in front of his house. They were carrying signs and looked very angry. One of the signs read, "No More Sheep!" Another read, "Herb Waffle Move Out Now!" Herb has 72 sheep in his front yard. Recently he had planned to buy 28 more. He decided to get dressed and go out to talk to his angry neighbors. Maybe he could tell them something to make them forget about being angry. As he got dressed, he began to think of something to say. When he went outside, he suddenly shouted... [ finish the story ] 2nd Oscar Hudnut was really excited! He was driving to his new job. He is supposed to watch all of the sheep on Arnold's Sheep Ranch. "Wow!" he thought, "I can't believe I am going to be watching all the sheep at Arnold's ranch. What an easy job this will be. There are 6,779,002 sheep at the ranch, but all they do is eat all day. How could a...
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