At his word they had poured in upon him from all sides, until he was half bewildered at sight of the glittering treasures; but, just as he began to feel secure in his possessions, they began to take themselves wings and fly away.
And, alas for him! he had laid up no other treasures.

None in heaven; none in the hearts of his wife and children; none in his own mind.

The staff upon which he had leaned was now a splintering reed, wounding as it bent under him..