Good Luck to the Lucky One.
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So saying the house-owner came out of the room fearing the scorpions. And our poor man thus had all the fortune to himself, and was no longer a poor man. He soon became one of the wealthiest of men of his time, but remembering that he owed all his riches to the wealthyl andlord who gave him the house, he used to share with the latter half of his wealth every year.
This story explains the Tamiḷ proverb Madrishṭam uḷḷavanukku kiḍaikkum; to the fortunate good fortune.
N. B.—This story was also related to me by my step-mother whose birth-place is a village in the Trichinopoly district. N. S.
