<P> An Eastern analogue is found in the Suvannahamsa Jataka, which appears in the fourth section of the Buddhist book of monastic discipline (Vinaya). In this the father of a poor family is reborn as a swan with golden feathers and invites them to pluck and sell a single feather from his wings to support themselves, returning occasionally to allow them another . The greedy mother of the family eventually plucks all the feathers at once, but they then turn to ordinary feathers; when the swan recovers its feathers they too are no longer gold . The moral drawn there is: </P> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> Contented be, nor itch for further store . </Dd> <Dd> They seized the swan - but had its gold no more . </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> Contented be, nor itch for further store . </Dd> <Dd> They seized the swan - but had its gold no more . </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> Contented be, nor itch for further store . </Dd> <Dd> They seized the swan - but had its gold no more . </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl>

Who killed the goose that laid the golden egg