The Milkmaid and Her Pail

英语自学网

The Milkmaid and Her Pail
        Patty the Milkmaid was going to market carrying her milk in a
        Pail on her head.  As she went along she began calculating what
        she would do with the money she would get for the milk.  "I'll buy
        some fowls from Farmer Brown," said she, "and they will lay eggs
        each morning, which I will sell to the parson's wife.  With the
        money that I get from the sale of these eggs I'll buy myself a new
        dimity frock and a chip hat; and when I go to market, won't all
        the young men come up and speak to me!  Polly Shaw will be that
        jealous; but I don't care.  I shall just look at her and toss my
        head like this.  As she spoke she tossed her head back, the Pail
        fell off it, and all the milk was spilt.  So she had to go home
        and tell her mother what had occurred.
        "Ah, my child," said the mother,
       
        "Do not count your chickens before they are hatched."