3. What is the moral of the story?

The moral of the story is Dont count your boobies until they are hatched. Means dont count on things to turn out exactly as you planned them or dont assume youll get something you want, wait until you actually have it. It means do not plan something out and act as if it is going to happen, as it might not go through or it might go wrong. Based on the story, a woman tries to get her husband into trouble and she is very confident about it but in the end she has to accept her mistake. Booby there is a species of bird called booby from its apparent stupidity. As early as the 1630s, the celebrated author and traveler Sir Thomas Herbert described this tropical bird that perched on ship railing, and was so stupid, unsuspicious or dense that it could be easily caught by sailors. Sir Thomas says the bird is fitly called a Booby