“What a waste of my time,” a disappointed business tycoon said. “That pretender claimed to have the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, but he showed me a gander.”

“That explains a lot,” his appointment secretary said. “The sample he gave me was 24-karat gold, but it looked like crap.”

John H. Dromey has had short fiction published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Stupefying Stories Showcase, and elsewhere.