A WIZARD, sitting in the marketplace, was telling the fortunes of the passers-by when a person ran up in great haste, and announced to him that the doors of his house had been broken open and that all his goods were being stolen. —
He sighed heavily and hastened away as fast as he could run. A neighbor saw him running and said, “Oh! —
you fellow there! you say you can foretell the fortunes of others; —
how is it you did not foresee your own?’