One early morning, Peggy the milkmaid set out for market with a pail of fresh sweet milk balanced on her head. She was supposed to sell the milk and bring back the pail.
As she walk along the road, she thought, “With the money I make for this milk I can buy fat hens. The hens will lay fresh eggs. And those eggs will hatch chicken. Then, I’ll wait for the winter, when chicken price are high, and I’ll sell them for a very high price. They will fetch enough money for me to buy the blue dress i have wanted, and some blue ribbon to match! I will look so beautiful that all of the boys will want to dance with me at the country fair, and all of the girls will be green with envy. But, I won’t care. I’ll just toss my head at them – like this!” And guess what she did.
Forgetting all the pail of milk, Peggy tosses her head, and the white fresh milk spilled and disappeared into the dirt road. Peggy had nothing to sell at market.
Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.
– Aesop
