{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5eb1","title":"The Milkmaid and Her Pail","author":"Aesop","publish_year":-400,"publish_year_exact":false,"code":"the-milkmaid-and-her-pail","words":183,"image":"pail.jpg","image_alt":"A bucket being carried by someone in a dress. Graphite filter.","genres":["childrens"],"blurb":"A farmer’s daughter had been out to milk the cows, and was returning to the dairy carrying her pail of milk upon her head. As she walked along, she fell a-musing after this fashion: “The milk in this ...","description":"A small fable on getting ahead of yourself.","original_language":"Ancient Greek","translators":["V. S. Vernon Jones"],"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}