THE MILKMAID AND THE PAIL Patty and the milkmaid was going to the market carrying 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 famer brown," she said, "and they will lay eggs each morning, which I will sell to the parson's wife. with the money I get form the sale of these egg'" I'll buy myself a new dimity frock and a chip hat. And when I go to the market won't all the young men come up and talk to me! polly shaw will be so jealous but I don't care. I shall just look at her and toss my head like this. As she spoke that she tossed her head back and the pail fell of it and all the milk was split MORAL~ Do not count your chikens before they are hatched... The Crow And The Pitcher ...