“So shall it be, baes,” answered Ulenspiegel.
When the shoemaker had gone out, Ulenspiegel cut out vamps only good to make shoes for fillies, asses, heifers, sows, and ewes.
Coming back to his workshop, the baes, seeing his leather in pieces:
“What have you done there, good-for-nothing botcher?” said he.
“What you bade me,” Ulenspiegel made answer.
“I bade you,” replied the baes, “cut me shoes in which might be put handily everything that leads oxen, swine, and sheep, and you make me shoes for the feet of the beasts.”
Ulenspiegel replied:
“Baes, what leads the boar but the sow, the donkey but the ass, the bull but the heifer, the ram but the ewe, in the season when all the beasts are in love?”
Then he went away, and must needs remain outside.