This illustration is taken from Cassell's Dore Gallery. The original illustration was in The Dore Bible. This engraving depicts a poor man holding a dead hen. The hen was laying golden eggs. The man wanting to have all of the treasures at once, kills the bird only to find that once dead, it is just an ordinary bird.

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Gustave Dore illustration of the Hen with the Golden Eggs

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