Once upon a time, there was a chicken that belonged to a man and his wife. Every day they fed the chicken some grain, and every day it gave them two eggs, and all of them were happy.
One day, they decided that the chicken was eating too much grain, and started to give it less. The chicken did it's best, and still gave them two eggs every day, but they were a bit smaller than before. After a while, they gave the chicken less and less grain, so that finally the chicken could only make one egg a day, and then no eggs at all.
"Chicken soup time," said the man, grabbing the chicken, but the chicken pecked at him and got away. The chicken flapped off down the road, to seek it's fortune.
That night, the chicken stopped to rest in a small cave by the roadside. Another traveler, a poor old man, stopped at the same cave. "Good chicken," asked the old man, "could you make me an egg for my dinner? I have had nothing to eat for many days. I will make a fire to cook the egg, and it will warm us both."
"Why should I make an egg for you?" replied the chicken. "I have seen how your kind repay me for my efforts. You will probably want to cook me for your dinner!" And he told the old man of his poor treatment, and how he had run away.
"Some people are like that," agreed the old man, "but some are not. I am not, and others are not, and you will find them."
The chicken decided that the old man was truthful, and trying as hard as it could, it made him an egg for his dinner. The old man made a fire, and cooked the egg for his dinner, and the fire warmed them both.
In the morning, the poor old man revealed that he was in fact a wizard. "You will make two more eggs for strangers," he said, "and you will be rewarded for both of them." Then he vanished in the blink of an eye, but where he had been standing, there was a bowl of grain. The chicken ate the grain, wondering who the other strangers would be. WORK IN PROGRESS! Three strangers to meet 1. farm yard with many chickens all well fed, chicken asks them if they like it here, they say you must decide for yourself. house has two fattest people chicken has ever seen, they are happy to see her, ask her to stay. they get hardly enough eggs only six each. chicken decides it would be easy life but no thanks. 2. trickster tries to swap ice cube claiming it is diamond, chicken moves on. 3. old woman needs egg to make special easter egg for sick child, chicken makes the egg, child recovers, all live happily ever after.