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Baby's Own Aesop (1887)

61. Fortune and The Boy (Perry 174)

A Boy heedless slept by the well
By Dame Fortune awaked, truth to tell,
Said she, "Hadst been drowned,
'Twould have surely been found
This by Fortune, not Folly befel."

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