And the peasants that were coming back from the fields to go to dinner, while the church bell called them to it, passed before Katheline saying:
“There is the madwife.”
And they made the sign of the cross.
And Nele and Ulenspiegel wept, and Ulenspiegel must needs go on upon his pilgrimage.
XLI
At this time as he pilgrimaged he entered into the service of one Josse, surnamed the Kwaebakker, the cross baker, because of his vinegar face. The Kwaebakker gave him three stale loaves every week for his food, and for lodging a sloping garret under the roof, where the rain rained and the wind blew marvellously.
Seeing himself so evilly entreated, Ulenspiegel played him different tricks and this among them. When they bake in the early morning, the flour must be bolted over night. One night, then, when the moon was shining, Ulenspiegel asked for a candle to see to work and had this answer from his master:
“Bolt the flour in the light of the moon.”
Ulenspiegel, obeying him, bolted the flour upon the earth, where the moonlight was shining.