When they said thus, that man who went driving the bull having spoken [to himself]: “I will do a good work for these three persons,” says, “Anē! Friends, except that I have a thought that I also having joined you three persons [should be] obtaining a livelihood, for what purpose should I go to my village? It is not the fact [that I think of going there]. It is my thought to live joined with you,” he said.
When he said this, those thieves say, “It is good. We also are much pleased at your living joined with us,” they said.
The two parties speaking thus, the man who came driving the bull stayed near those men who cheated him. Having stayed thus, after about eight days or ten days had gone, he said, “I will do a thing for their having cheated me and taken the bull”; and making a hat which had three corners he put it on his head.
While he is there [after] thus putting the three-cornered hat on his head, those three persons ask, “What is it, friend? Where did you meet with a hat of a kind which is not [elsewhere]? This is the first time we saw such hats,” they said.
When they said thus, the man says, “Anē! Friends, if you knew the facts about this hat you will not speak in this way,” he said.
“Because of what circumstances are you praising this hat?” they asked.
This poor man says, “By this hat I can obtain food and drink while at any place I like. Moreover, by the power of this hat I can also do anything I think of,” he said.
When he said thus, those three persons say, “Anē! Friend, will you give us that hat?”
When they asked him, he says, “Having shown you the power which there is in my hat, I can give you the hat also for a sufficient sum,” he said.
They said, “If so, show us the power that is in your hat. We having looked at the power of the hat, we will give you the whole of the goods that there are of ours, and take the hat.”