"Now for the butter and the cheese," said the man.
"O Fred," said Kate, "I anointed the cart-ruts with the butter, and the cheeses will soon be here, they are upon the road; one of them ran away, and I sent the others to fetch it back."
Then said Fred,
"It was very wrong of you, Kate, to waste the butter, and roll the cheeses down the hill."
And Kate answered, "Well then, you should have told me so."
As they were eating the dry bread together, Fred said,
"Kate, did you lock up the house before leaving?"
"No, Fred; you ought to have told me that before."
And her husband answered,
"Well, you must go home at once and lock up the house before we go any farther, and you might as well bring something more to eat with you, and I will wait for you here."