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the cause--the fellow is well off and fat,' With these words Vinakarna
snatched up a shovel, discovered my retreat, and took away all my hoard
of provisions. After that I lost strength daily, had scarcely energy
enough to get my dinner, and, in fact, crept about so wretchedly, that
when Chudakarna saw me he fell to quoting--
'Very feeble folk are poor folk; money lost takes wit away:--
All their doings fail like runnels, wasting through the summer day.'
"Yes!" I thought, "he is right, and so are the sayings--
'Wealth is friends, home, father, brother--title to respect and fame;
Yea, and wealth is held for wisdom--that it should be so is shame,'
'Home is empty to the childless; hearts to them who friends deplore:--
Earth unto the idle-minded; and the three worlds to the poor.'
'I can stay here no longer; and to tell my distress to another is out of
the question--altogether out of the question!--
'Say the sages, nine things name not: Age, domestic joys and woes,
Counsel, sickness, shame, alms, penance; neither Poverty disclose.


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