The Stream Of Cash

A CERTAIN gentleman’s servant was one day in his master’s garden, when he beheld a stream of cash flowing by, two or three feet in breadth and of about the same depth. He immediately seized two large handfuls, and then threw himself down on the top of the stream in order to try and secure the rest. However, when he got up he found that it had all flowed away from under him, none being left except what he had got in his two hands.

[“Ah!” says the commentator, “money is properly a circulating medium, and is not intended for a man to lie upon and keep all to himself.”]

錢流

沂水劉宗玉云：其僕杜和，偶在園中，見錢流如水，深廣二三尺許。杜驚喜，以兩手滿掬，復偃臥其上。既而起視，則錢已盡去；惟握於手者尚存。