Like many of us who are, have been, and shall be in the world, there
was a king, and his wife, and three sons. The king went out hunting
one day, and caught a Tartaro. He brings him home, and shuts him up
in prison in a stable, and proclaims, by sound of trumpet, that all
his court should meet the next day at his house, that he would give
them a grand dinner, and afterwards would show them an animal such
as they had never seen before.
The next day the two sons of the king were playing at ball against
(the wall of) the stable where the Tartaro was confined, and the ball
went into the stable. One of the boys goes and asks the Tartaro--
"Throw me back my ball, I beg you."