TRANSLATION.
Once there was a man drinking with his Gipsy fellows in an alehouse, and after a while he got half drunk. And he said of pigs that had died a natural death, he never ate any. By-and-by his wife came in and asked him to go home, but he told her, “No—I won’t go now.” Then she said, “Come along, the children have no food.” So she entreated him again and again, and he always answered “No.” So she took a pig that had died a natural death, from her back and threw it on the table before all the people, and said, “Take the dead pig for a wife, and I will look after the children.” [{218}]