Footnote To Youth Dialectical Journal

The first week became one of the worst for Karl the Merchant. He was no longer collecting golden eggs and he became poorer by the day. The merchant’s wife and two kids had left him because he cannot support them. Why did I kill that hen, he thought angrily. Karl needed to go and visit the Village leader and tell him what he has done, but he didn’t want to talk about the situation.
When Karl arrived to the village leader’s hut, he asked him what he should do now that he can’t support himself.
“Why can’t you support yourself anymore?” asked the leader, “Don’t you have that hen that lays a golden egg everyday?”
Karl thought for a moment before he responded to the leader. “Yes, I did have a hen, but then I killed it,” whispered Karl.
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Karl was so desperate that he decided he would go look for the missing man. Maybe he will give me his hen, or some of the eggs, Karl thought. He was told he would need to go west of the village and bring any food he had left for the journey. Karl didn’t have much anymore, but he had enough for this trip. It was about three days of hiking through the semi-rough terrain, but eventually he spotted a cave with a ginormous entrance. The huge cave didn’t surprise Karl the most though, the thing that surprised him the most was that the entire cave was full of golden eggs.
Karl quickly rushed up to the mound of gold eggs and started snatching them. There has to be a million eggs here, Karl thought. He didn’t see anybody around, so he stuffed as many into his pockets and bag as he could hold. As Karl lept down from the mound of golden eggs, he noticed an old looking man watching him. Karl knew this had to be the missing man that has the hen.
The man approached Karl and demanded he put the eggs back.
“But why?” Karl asked, “You have so many that are just sitting in there, and you wouldn’t notice if I took a