-LSB- Lapplandische Mahrchen . -RSB- Fortune and the Wood-Cutter Several hundreds of years ago there lived in a forest a wood-cutter and his wife and children . He was very poor , having only his axe to depend upon , and two mules to carry the wood he cut to the neighbouring town ; but he worked hard , and was always out of bed by five o'clock , summer and winter . This went on for twenty years , and though his sons were now grown up , and went with their father to the forest , everything seemed to go against them , and they remained as poor as ever . In the end the wood-cutter lost heart , and said to himself : ` What is the good of working like this if I never am a penny the richer at the end ? I shall go to the forest no more ! And perhaps , if I take to my bed , and do not run after Fortune , one day she may come to me . ' So the next morning he did not get up , and when six o'clock struck , his wife , who had been cleaning the house , went to see what was the matter . ` Are you ill ? ' she asked wonderingly , surprised at not finding him dressed . ` The cock has crowed ever so often . It is high time for you to get up . ' ` Why should I get up ? ' asked the man , without moving . ` Why ? to go to the forest , of course . ' ` Yes ; and when I have toiled all day I hardly earn enough to give us one meal . ' ` But what can we do , my poor husband ? ' said she . ` It is just a trick of Fortune 's , who would never smile upon us . '
` Well , I have had my fill XXXXX Fortune 's tricks , ' cried he .
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