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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep tight stories. This story

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Speaker 1: teaches us to be happy with what we have and

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Speaker 1: to not want for more. The beggar in our story

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Speaker 1: sees what everyone else has and can't understand why he

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Speaker 1: has nothing. But when he gets his chance to have something,

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Speaker 1: he is very greedy and ends up with nothing. Fortune

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Speaker 1: and the beggar. One day, a ragged beggar was creeping

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Speaker 1: along from house to house. He carried an old wallet

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Speaker 1: in his hand and was asking at every door for

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Speaker 1: a few cents to buy something to eat. As he

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Speaker 1: was grumbling at his lot, he kept wondering why it

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Speaker 1: was that folks who had so much money were never satisfied,

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Speaker 1: but were always wanting more. Here said, he is the

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Speaker 1: master of this house. I know him well. He was

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Speaker 1: always a good business man, and he made himself wondrously

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Speaker 1: rich a long time ago. Had he been wise, he

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Speaker 1: would have stopped. Then he would have turned over his

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Speaker 1: business to some one else, and then he could have

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Speaker 1: spent the rest of his life in ease. But what

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Speaker 1: did he do Instead? He built ships and sent them

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Speaker 1: to sea to trade with foreign lands. He thought he

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Speaker 1: would get mountains of gold, but there were great storms

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Speaker 1: on the water, his ships were wrecked, and his riches

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Speaker 1: were swallowed up by the waves. Now all his hopes

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Speaker 1: lie at the bottom of the sea, and his great

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Speaker 1: wealth has vanished. There are many such cases. Men seemed

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Speaker 1: to never be satisfied unless they gained the whole world.

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Speaker 1: As for me, if I had only enough to eat

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Speaker 1: and to where, I would not want anything more. Just

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Speaker 1: at that moment, Fortune came down the street. She saw

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Speaker 1: the beggar and stopped. Said to him, listen, I have

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Speaker 1: long wished to help you hold your wallet, and I

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Speaker 1: will pour this gold into it, but only on this condition.

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Speaker 1: All that falls into the wallet shall be pure gold,

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Speaker 1: but every piece that falls upon the ground shall become dust.

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Speaker 1: Do you understand. Oh, yes, I understand, said the beggar.

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Speaker 1: Then have a care, said Fortune. Your wallet is old,

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Speaker 1: so do not load it too heavily. The beggar was

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Speaker 1: so glad that he could hardly wait. He quickly opened

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Speaker 1: his wallet, and a stream of yellow dollars poured into it.

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Speaker 1: The wallet grew heavy. Is that enough, asked Fortune? Not yet,

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Speaker 1: isn't it cracking? Never fear, the beggar's hands began to tremble.

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Speaker 1: Ah if the golden stream would only pour forever. You

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Speaker 1: are the richest man in the world. Now, just a

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Speaker 1: little more, add just a handful or two. There it's full.

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Speaker 1: The wallet will burst, but it will hold a little.

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Speaker 1: Just a little more, another piece was added, and the

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Speaker 1: wallet split. The treasure fell upon the ground and was

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Speaker 1: turned to dust. Fortune had vanished. The beggar had now

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Speaker 1: nothing but his empty wallet, and it was torn from

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Speaker 1: top up to bottom. He was as poor as before.

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Speaker 1: Good Night, sleep tight,