AG Ahmad

  Moral Story No: 17 Something is better than nothing. Other Possible Morals: i. Do not build castles in the air. ii. A Bird in the Hand is Worth than Two in the Bush. iii. Something is better than nothing. iv. Day dreams cost nothing. The Milkmaid and Her Pail There lived a farmer in a village. He had a young daughter. She was really an imaginative sort of girl. One morning, she went out to milk the cows and was returning to the dairy carrying her pail on her head. As she went along, she began thinking, “The milk in this pail will provide me cream, with which I will make butter and take it to market to sell. With this money, I will buy a bunch of eggs. When they are hatched, they will produce chickens. Day by day, I will have a large poultry farm. I will sell eggs and chickens in the market. With the money that I get from the market on selling these things, I will buy a new dress for myself. Then, I will go to the fair, all men will come to see and talk to me. ...