LUCK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1766, 20 August 1884, Page 2

LUCK.

A monarch of the East, according , to an Indian fable in leisure Hour, l sajd to his minister, ! ' Dp you believe , in lupk 1" "Ido f said the minister. , ,( Can yon prove it f" said the king. ' " Yes, I can." said the minister. So . one night he tied up to the qeiling a j. parcel containing peas mixed with 3 diamonds, and let in two men, one of a whom believed in luck, and the other s in human effort alone, The former j. quietly laid himself down on the B ground; the latter after a series of j efforts reached the parcel, and feeling in the dark the peas and the stones, ate j the former one by one, and threw down ~ the latter at his companion, saying, j. " Here are the stones for your idlej ness." The man below received them j in his blanket. In the morning the king and the minister came to the g room and bade each take to himself j what be had got. The man of, effort e found he had nothing I'Byond the peas he had eaten. The man of luck j quietly walked away with the diamonds. The minister said to the King, " Sire, s there is such 'a thing' as luck; but it is g as rare as peas mixed with diamonds, i So I would say, let none Jiope to, Ijve