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<h2>THE TRAVELLER AND FORTUNE</h2>
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<p>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."</p>
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