The young man became wrathful.
“What are you talking about?” said he.
“The seeds say,” replied Ulenspiegel, “that they wish thee a happy marriage and a wife that will not bring thee Vulcan’s hat. Dost thou know that headgear?”
Then declaiming like a preacher:
“For she,” said he, “that giveth earnest upon the marriage bargain leaves afterwards the whole merchandise to others for nothing.”
Hereupon the girl, wishing to pretend assurance:
“Is all that to be seen in the prophesying sachets?”
“There is a key to be seen there also,” said Ulenspiegel low in her ear.
But the young man had gone already with the key.
Suddenly Ulenspiegel perceived a thief sneaking from a pork butcher’s stall a sausage an ell long and putting it under his cloak. But the merchant saw him not. The thief, full of glee, came to Ulenspiegel and said to him: