小男孩和财富

Belinda

A little boy wearied with a long journey, lay down overcome with

fatigue on the very brink of a deep well. Being within an inch of

falling into the water, Dame Fortune, it is said, appeared to him, and

waking him from his slumber, thus addressed him: "Little boy, pray

wake up: for had you fallen into the well, the blame will be thrown on

me, and I shall get an ill name among mortals; for I find that men are

sure to blame their calamities to me, however much by their own

folly they have really brought them on themselves."

"Every one is more or less master of his own fate."