After performing either a number of good or evil deeds, the child collects enough money to procure for his sister a box of chocolates. The boy's father, Brom, comes to an agreement with the future Hero, promising to give him a gold piece for each good deed that he performs around the village. The Hero's journey begins on the day of his sister's birthday – a day that the young boy unwisely forgot again. The Hero then embarked on a journey to uncover the reason behind his village's destruction, discover his destiny, learn the true fate of his family, and save Albion from one of its oldest foes. On Theresa's birthday, the village of Oakvale is suddenly raided and destroyed by bandits, seemingly killing the boy's entire family. Before getting killed himself, an old Hero named Maze rescued the boy and convinced him to join the Heroes' Guild to be trained as Hero. Together, the couple had two children: first, the eldest daughter, Theresa, and then a son, who would later become known as the Hero of Oakvale. Many years after the founding of the Heroes Guild, a famous heroine known as Scarlet Robe, a descendant of the ruling Archons of the Old Kingdom, got married to a woodsman from Oakvale named Brom. From this Fable we learn this admirable lesson, never to lose the present opportunity of fairly and honestly providing against the future evils and accidents of life and while health and the vigour of our faculties remain firm and entire, to lay them out to the best advantage so that when age and infirmities despoil us of our strength and abilities, we may not have to bewail that we have neglected to provide for the wants of our latter days: for it should always be remembered, that “a youth of revels breeds an age of care,” and that temperance in youth lays the foundation of health and comfort for old age.WARNING: This section or article may contain spoilers! It that be the case, replied the Ant, all I have to say is this: that they who drink, sing, and dance in the summer, run a great risk of starving in the winter.Īs summer is the season in which the industrious laborious husbandman lays up his supplies for the winter, so youth and manhood are the times of life which we should employ in laying in such a stock as may suffice for helpless old age yet there are many whom we call rational creatures, who squander away in a profuse prodigality, whatever they get in their younger days, as if the infirmity of age would require no supplies to support it, or at least would find them administered to it in some miraculous way. One of the Ants asked him how he had disposed of his time in summer, that he had not taken pains and laid in a stock, as they had done? Alas! my friends, says he, I passed away the time merrily and pleasantly, in drinking, singing, and dancing, and never once thought of winter. While health, and the flower and vigour of our age remain firm and entire, let us lay them out to the best advantage that, when the latter days take hold of us, and spoil us of our strength and abilities, we may have a store moderately sufficient to subsist upon, which we laid up in the morning of our age.Ī commonwealth of Ants, having, after a busy summer, provided every thing for their wants in the winter, were about shutting themselves up for that dreary season, when a Grasshopper in great distress, and in dread of perishing with cold and hunger, approached their avenues, and with great humility begged they would relieve his wants, and permit him to take shelter in any corner of their comfortable mansion. From this fable we learn this admirable lesson, never to lose any present opportunity of providing against the future evils and accidents of life. Yet, notwithstanding the truth of this, there are mauy of those which we call rational creatures, who live in a method quite opposite to it, and make it their business to squander away, in a profuse prodigality, whatever they get in their younger days: as if the infirmity of age would require no supplies to support it or, at least, would find them administered to it in some miraculous way. As summer is the season of the year in which the industrious and laborious husbandman gathers and lays up such fruits as may supply his necessities in winter, so youth and manhood are the times of lift which we should employ and bestow inlaying in such a stock of all kinds of necessaries, as may suffice for the craving demands of helpless old age.
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