illiland Fountains

aron Von Lodge was the head of a small country known as Lilliland near Switzerland. The time was the early 1900s.

The Baron’s chief advisor was Professor Philip Hamblin and the Baron’s fiancée was Lady Angela of Alpine Castle. Since Lilliland, like Switzerland, was a neutral country, the Baron spent most of his time enjoying the visitors who liked to spend time on Castle Lake and in the snow-covered Alpine Mountains. Each year, tourism became increasingly more popular than the previous year.

While Lilliland had numerous fountains in its many parks, the one fountain that seemed to be talked about most was the fountain in the central marketplace.

The fountain had a strange curse about it. It was not that anyone was expected to throw coins in the fountain, for the fountain had no coins in it. It was not a make-a-wish fountain either.

The curse was that if someone walked near the fountain and did not dip his or her fingers into the fountain’s water, there would be bad luck for that person the entire day.

Both the Baron and the Professor felt that the curse was just a lot of nonsense. But people kept up the tradition and would not walk near the fountain without touching the water.

How it started was the story about a man who touched the water and that same day he inherited a large sum of money from a relative he did not even know.

Both the Baron and the Professor felt that the fountain was neither lucky or unlucky. They both felt that a person made his or her own luck. By being realistic and thinking positive thoughts about life in general, they believed that luck was self-made. There would always be good days, and some not-so-good-days, but the good days would always outweigh the not-so-good-days. That’s the secret.