“Give us a room away from these men where we cannot hear their evil talk.”
So the landlord put them in his parlor on the opposite side of the house; but though the doors were shut tight, the noise came through, and was so loud that the men in the parlor could hardly hear themselves speak. Then they said to one another:
“What shall we do to get beyond the reach of these horrid sounds? Truly, we can do nothing else but leave the place.”
So they went out and harnessed up their horses and drove off.
The next time they stopped at the inn the bad men were there again. Then the farm-people called the landlord, and said to him:
“We want to stay and take dinner here. Bring us therefore to a room much farther away from these men than the parlor where you put us before.”
