And the man said to him, "I will not give it you for less than five
hundred francs."
"Oh! you will give it me for three hundred?"
"No, no."
At last he gives it him for four hundred. The priest tells his
housekeeper:
"If any one comes, you will let the hare loose; she will find me,
no matter where I may be."
A man comes to the parsonage to say that a sick person is asking for
the priest. She immediately lets the hare loose, being quite sure
that that would be enough. But the priest did not return. The man got
tired of waiting, and went off. The housekeeper told the priest that
she had let the hare loose, and that she had seen nothing more of it.
In a rage, he goes to the huntsman's house. But Petarillo, seeing
him coming in a rage, gives a wine-skin to his wife, and says to her:
"Put this under your jacket. When the priest is here, I will plunge
a knife into you in a rage, and you will fall as if you were dead;
and when I shall begin to play the flute, you will get up as if yon
were alive."
The priest arrives in a great rage, (they all three dispute), and
the man stabs his wife. She falls on the ground, and the priest says
to him:
"Do you know what you have done?"