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Townsend version
A wizard, sitting in the marketplace, was telling the fortunes of the passers-by when a person ran up in great haste, and announced to him that the doors of his house had been broken open and that all his goods were being stolen. He sighed heavily and hastened away as fast as he could run. A neighbor saw him running and said, "Oh! you fellow there! you say you can foretell the fortunes of others; how is it you did not foresee your own?'
L'Estrange version
There was a kind of a petty conjurer, that made it his profession to resolve questions, and tell fortunes, and he held forth in the market-place. Word was brought him, in the very middle of his schemes and calculations, that his house was robb'd; and so away he scours immediately to learn the truth on't. As he was running home in all haste a droll takes him up by the way, with this short question, Friend (says he) how come you to be so good at telling other peoples fortunes, and know so little of your own?
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