The Milkmaid and Her Pail

From Aesop's Fables by Aesop
A milkmaid daydreams about wealth from selling her milk, tosses her head in imagined disdain, and spills the pail, dramatizing premature reckoning.
The Milkmaid and Her Pail

Moral: 'Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.'

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