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A FARMER’S daughter was carrying her Pail of milk from the field to the farmhouse, 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. The chickens will become ready for the market when poultry will fetch the highest price, so that by the end of the year I shall have money enough from my share to buy a new gown.
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Townsend calls this fable The Milkmaid and Her Pail, and it is the source of the warning about counting chickens before they hatch. The girl's arithmetic is part of the joke: three hundred eggs, then two hundred and fifty chickens, then the gown. The story is missing from the oldest Greek collections and reached Europe through medieval Latin and French retellings. Jean de La Fontaine put it into verse in 1678 as La Laitière et le Pot au lait.
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Townsend calls this fable The Milkmaid and Her Pail, and it is the source of the warning about counting chickens before they hatch. The girl's arithmetic is part of the joke: three hundred eggs, then two hundred and fifty chickens, then the gown. The story is missing from the oldest Greek collections and reached Europe through medieval Latin and French retellings. Jean de La Fontaine put it into verse in 1678 as La Laitière et le Pot au lait.
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