Like many others in the world, there was a man and his wife. The man's
name was Petarillo. He was fond of sporting. One day he caught two
leverets, and the parish priest came to see him. The husband said to
his wife--"If the priest comes again you will let one of the hares go,
as if to meet me, tying, at the same time, a letter round its neck,
and I will tie another letter to the other hare."
The priest goes to the house one day, and asks where the husband
is. The woman says:
"I will send one of the hares with a letter to fetch him. No matter
where he is, she will find him; he has trained them so well."
And she lets one of the hares loose. They grew impatient at the long
delay, and had given it up, when at last the husband came. His wife
says to him, "I sent the hare."