A short story by Ambrose Bierce Dame Fortune And The Traveller

Title: Dame Fortune And The Traveller
Author: Ambrose Bierce
A Weary Traveller who had lain down and fallen asleep on the brink of a deep well was discovered by Dame Fortune.

"If this fool," she said, "should have an uneasy dream and roll into the well men would say that I did it. It is painful to me to be unjustly accused, and I shall see that I am not."

So saying she rolled the man into the well.









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Ambrose Bierce's short story: Dame Fortune And The Traveller