The Milk-Woman and Her Pail - Aesop Fables - Kids Story Short Stories for Children and Adults

About this episode

The episode narrates the story of a farmer's daughter who dreams of the riches her milk will bring, illustrating the folly of daydreaming.

A Farmer’s daughter was carrying her pail of milk from the field to the farm-house, when she fell a-musing, “The money for which this milk will be sold, will buy at least three hundred eggs. The eggs, allowing for all mishaps, will produce two hundred and fifty chickens... AcreSoft Story Classic https://acresoft.contactin.bio The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step. Proverbs 16:9, YLT

People in this episode

Host: Luella Caudill

Topics covered

• Aesop Fables
• children's stories
• moral lessons
• farm life
• imagination

Keywords

• milk
• Aesop
• fable
• children's story
• imagination
• farm
• chickens
• eggs

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Milk-Woman and Her Pail, Aesop Fables, Proverbs 16:9

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