‘Go back, for we shall not catch them.’
They went back. ‘We did not catch them.’
‘On the road did not you find anything?’ [[127]]
‘We found a field of wheat and a peasant.’
‘Go back, for the field of wheat was she, and he was the peasant.’
They saw them again. She said to the lad, ‘I will turn a somersault and make myself an old church, and do you turn a somersault and make yourself an old monk, and they will ask you, “Didn’t a maiden and a lad pass by?” “They passed just as I began the church.” ’
‘Ah! go back, for we shall never catch them. When he was beginning the church! It is old now.’
‘Did you not find anything on the road?’
‘We found a church and a monk.’
‘The church was she, and he was the monk. I will go myself.’