There was an old sow with three little pigs, and as she had not enough to keep them, she sent them out to seek their fortune.
And she had two sons; and by-and-by it was time for the wife to send them away to seek their fortune.
Her own daughter, Kate, however, took a fine linen cloth and wrapped it round her sister's head and took her by the hand and they both went out to seek their fortune.
Tens of thousands of Greeks of all classes were brought together to the slave markets; while those men of talent who escaped that fate emigrated to Rome to seek their fortunes by teaching the Greek language and art and philosophy.
Then the younger sons, for whom there was no place at home and for whom there remained no spots suitable for homesteads in their native land, were sent out into the world to seek their fortunes.
As they were homeless they determined to take up their abode in the castle, and they arranged that one of them should always stay at home and keep house, while the other two went out into the world to seek their fortunes.
In the course of time Janni's parents died, and he and his sister were left alone in the world; soon affairs went badly with them, so they determined to wander away to seek their fortune.
They took money enough for a long journey and went out into the wide world to seek their sisters.
But the brothers led him out among the high mountains, left him there in the lurch, and went on to seek their fortune.
They take advantage of this for diving to the bottom to seek their prey, and they will often travel to a considerable distance before they appear again on the surface.
Frogs often leave the water, not only to seek their nourishment, but to warm themselves in the sun.
These reptiles live in holes, and in mid-day they steal out of their cells to seek their food, which consists chiefly of the smaller reptiles and of insects.
Look at them as they glide lightly over the surface of the stream, or mark them as they plunge into its bosom with a splash, either to bathe themselves or seek their food!
The brightness of daylight appears to dazzle them, and they do not seem to see clearly until evening when they leave their retreats to seek their food of worms and grubs in the cultivated fields, damp meadows or near springs.
Some for instance, like the Hedgehog, seek their food on the ground, while others like the Tupaia, hunt for it on trees.
Although their eyes are adapted for seeing in daylight, they usually sleep during the day, and do not go abroad until night to seek their food.
At sunrise they are set at liberty to seek their food.
One day the king ordered these three gentlemen to set out from the kingdom and seek their fortunes.
I have still a fifth Filipino story (e) of three brothers setting out to seek their fortunes, their rich father promising his estate to the son who should show most skill in the profession he had chosen.
In societies organized along horizontal lines the disposition of individuals in the lower strata is to seek their models in the strata above them.
It is usually the younger generation, the more restless, active, and adaptable, who go out from the security of the old home to seek their fortunes in the new.
Clark's, and George and Wirt Wheeler ran away on Sunday to seek their fortunes.
The young shepherd and the gipsy, having received the money, went off in opposite directions to seek their fortunes.
The lowness of wages and the unfavorable economic conditions that existed in England induced many poor men to seek their fortunes in the New World.
Among the thousands of Englishmen who left their homes to seek their fortunes in Virginia there were no dukes, no earls, rarely a knight, or even the son of a knight.
The London Company in its efforts to send to the colony desirable settlers induced a number of men of good family and education to venture across the ocean to seek their fortunes in the New World.
The wharves were pushed further out, great warehouses built, and though it was a fact that fewer people came to seek their fortunes, more brought with them the idea of settling.
What chance was there then for women who had come to seek their fortunes?
What would she have said to women who had not yet reached middle life, and had planned to go to a strange land to seek their fortunes!
These astonishing phenomena will perhaps be better understood if we consider the obstacles which insects have to overcome to satisfy their wants, to seek their food, to defend themselves against their enemies, &c.
For the same reason the males, which have to seek their females, have larger eyes than the latter.
In the far North, near the sacred oak forest of Taara, such a household existed, and from thence three sons went forth into the world to seek their fortunes.
It was arranged that whoever should cast his stone across the lake to the firm ground opposite should be adjudged his father's heir, and the other two should wander forth to seek their fortunes in other lands.
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