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OF VIGILANCE.
TALE LVI.
OF VIGILANCE IN OUR CALLING.
A thief went one night to the house of a rich man, and scaling the roof, peeped through a hole to examine if any part of the family were yet stirring. The master of the house, suspecting something, said secretly to his wife, "Ask me in a loud voice how I acquired the property I possess; and do not desist until I bid you." The woman complied, and began to vociferate, "My dear husband, pray tell me, since you never were a merchant, how you obtained all the wealth which you have now collected." "My love," answered her husband, "do not ask such foolish questions[1]." But she persisted in her enquiries; and at length,
- ↑ This, it is to be feared, is the retort conjugal.
