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The Hen with the Golden Eggs

One day, in an Arabian city, a woman went to the

market and bought a beautiful hen.

Adverb of Time
A few days later, to her surprise, the hen she

bought laid a golden egg.

The woman thought, “If the hen can be persuaded
to lay more than one egg each day, I am sure I will Past Tense

never have to work again.”

So the woman decided to make the hen eat more,

so that it could lay more eggs.

But the only result was that the hen died of Direct Speech
indigestion and did not lay more eggs at all.