"I know what I shall do to make a great deal of money in a very short time."
"What is it?" cried Lovallec.
"One of us," said the eldest, "will have to become blind and lead the other by the hand, going from house to house and along the public highways asking for alms from the people and from the travellers."
"You are right," said Lovallec, "but, alas! neither one of us is blind."
"It will be easy enough," said the other, "to become so."
"How can that be?" asked Lovallec.
"Oh, easy enough," said the elder. "One of us will have to put out his eyes."
"Oh, no!" exclaimed the younger; "that would make one of us suffer too much."
"Ah," said Mahobane, to the younger, "you are timid, you are tender-hearted: What is a little suffering in comparison with the happy times we should have? the soft beds we should sleep in, the fine meats that will be offered us, and the good wines we have not tasted in so long? But it does not follow that you are to be blind," continued Mahobane; "the lot may fall to me instead of you."