Hello friends, and welcome to Sleep Tide Stories.

This story teaches us to be happy with what we have and to not want for more.

The beggar in our story sees what everyone else has and can't understand why he has nothing.

But when he gets his chance to have something, he is very greedy and ends up with nothing.

Fortune and the beggar.

One day a ragged beggar was creeping along from house to house.

He carried an old wallet in his hand and was asking at every door or a few cents to buy

something to eat.

As he was grumbling at his lot, he kept wondering why it was that folks who had so much money

were never satisfied.

But were always wanting more.

Here said he is the master of this house.

I know him well.

He was always a good businessman, and he made himself wondrously rich a long time ago.

Had he been wise, he would have stopped then.

He would have turned over his business to someone else, and then he could have spent the rest

of his life in ease.

But what did he do instead?

He built ships and sent them to sea to trade with foreign lands.

He thought he would get mountains of gold, but there were great storms on the water.

His ships were wrecked, and his riches were swallowed up by the waves.

Now all his hopes lie at the bottom of the sea, and his great wealth has vanished.

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