Love and Fortune

A young fellow drudging along industriously to eke out an existence, is in love with an equally unfortunate maiden. Love stimulates them to renewed efforts, and hopes run high in the hearts of both. His pride does not permit him to propose marriage. The conditions prevailing are such as to invoke the aid of the gods, and so one day a fairy appears to the young man as he sleeps at the table in his room, and he undergoes an experience strangely exciting. He finds himself in possession of great wealth, and in his exuberance he forgets his maiden fair, and his flighty human heart alights upon the prettiest young lady of the town, the daughter of an Earl. At the palace all is pomp, and with difficulty is he able to pass the guards. Once within the edifice, he does not stand upon form, but wins an armful of gold, which he pours at the feet of the object of his adoration, his unannounced presence is pardoned and he is royally entertained. During a promenade of the castle grounds, he comes face to face with his maiden love, who is shocked and grieved to see him as the support of another. He refuses to see her, and she leaves with a broken heart. The present is glorious, and the future looks more so, but fate will not have it so, and ere long he meets with reverses and is ejected from the palace. Ruined, he returns to his quarters, and again reverts to his drudgery. At this moment he awakens, and as he realizes that all was only a dream, he is content and happy that he is still poor.