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