A Traveller, exhausted with fatigue after a long journey, sank down at the very brink of a deep well and presently fell asleep.He was within an ace of falling in, when Dame Fortune appeared to him and touched him on the shoulder, cautioning him to move further away."Wake up, good sir, I pray you," she said; "had you fallen into the well, the blame would have been thrown not on your own folly but on me, Fortune."
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THE TRAVELLER AND FORTUNE
A Traveller, exhausted with fatigue after a long journey, sank down at the very brink of a deep well and presently fell asleep.He was within an ace of falling in, when Dame Fortune appeared to him and touched him on the shoulder, cautioning him to move further away."Wake up, good sir, I pray you," she said; "had you fallen into the well, the blame would have been thrown not on your own folly but on me, Fortune."
