When he said [this, they replied], “If so, it is good. Taking the whole of the goods that there are of us three persons, give us the hat.”
When they said [this], the Three-cornered Hatter says, “It is good. Because you are saying it very importunately,[4] and because up to this time from the first [I have been] the friend of you three persons, taking the hat give me the goods.”
Having said [this], tying all the goods belonging to the three persons in bundles, the Three-cornered Hatter says, “Now then, I am going. I gave you the hat that I had for the protection of my life; you will take good care of that hat.” Having said it, the Three-cornered Hatter bounded off and went away.
On the following day after that, those three persons made ready to go in the first manner, for eating. One putting on the hat, they went, and sitting in the eating-house they ate and drank.
Having finished and talked, when they said, “We are going,”[5] [the people of the eating-house] ask, “Where is the money?” When they said, “Having given the money, go away,” where have these three got money to give?
When they did not give it on the spot, the men who are in the eating-house, seizing them and having beaten them, put them out of the eating-house.
When they put them out, these three persons are quarrelling along the road. [One of them] said, “Because, indeed, they did not see that you went [after] putting on the hat, we two also ate blows. I will see [about it]; I will put it on and go. Give me it here.”
This one, taking the hat from that man, and having gone [after] putting it on, to the place where they eat during the [mid] day, they ate and drank in the first manner. Having been there talking and talking for a little time, they say to the men of the eating-house, “Now then, we are going.”
When they said it, the men of the eating-house say, “Having gone, no matter if you should come again. For what you ate to-day we want the money. Give the money, and having gone, come [again].”
When they said [this], these three persons, except that they ate in order to look at the power of the hat, whence are they to give the money? While they were there without speaking, they said in the very first manner, “Thrash these three thieves for the money,” and there and then also seizing the men, beat them.