And she ran off to tell her husband . ` Get up ! get up ! ' she cried . ` You were quite right not to go to the forest , and to await Fortune in your bed ; she has come at last ! Our mules have returned home laden with all the gold in the world , and it is now lying in the court . No one in the whole country can be as rich as we are ! ' In an instant the wood-cutter was on his feet , and running to the court , where he paused dazzled by the glitter of the coins which lay around him . ` You see , my dear wife , that I was right , ' he said at last . ` Fortune is so capricious , you can never count on her . Run after her , and she is sure to fly from you ; stay still , and she is sure to come . ' -LSB- Traditions Populaires de l'Asie Mineure . -RSB- The Enchanted Head Once upon a time an old woman lived in a small cottage near the sea with her two daughters . They were very poor , and the girls seldom left the house , as they worked all day long making veils for the ladies to wear over their faces , and every morning , when the veils were finished , the other took them over the bridge and sold them in the city . Then she bought the food that they needed for the day , and returned home to do her share of veil-making . One morning the old woman rose even earlier than usual , and set off for the city with her wares . She was just crossing the bridge when , suddenly , she knocked up against a human head , which she had never seen there before . The woman started back in horror ; but what was her surprise when the head spoke , exactly as if it had a body joined on to it . ` Take me with you , good mother ! ' it said imploringly ; ` take me with you back to your house . '
At the sound of these words the poor woman nearly went mad XXXXX terror .
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