“Come this way, the door is here,” cried the wife.
“I know, I know. I but measure the house that we may build another of its size,” retorted the husband.
Lo, as the husband left the burning house and was running, he fell into a well. His wife placed a ladder for him to climb out, but, behold, he climbed far above the mouth of the well.
“Come down. Here is the ground,” called the wife.
“I know, I know. I am up here to see if the fire is out,” called down the husband.
Long had the father of the wife suspected the husband was blind, and, upon a day, he came to test his eyes. Carrying a bell, such as a buffalo wears, the father hid in the bushes and rang the bell.
“Go, bring the buffalo into the compound,”[24] directed the wife.
Suspecting naught, the husband went to the bushes, and cried, “Yoo, yoo!”[25] The father struck him, but he freed himself and returned to the house and told his wife that the buffalo had been dangerous and had horned him. But the father, convinced the husband had deceived them all, drove him from the house.
As the blind man walked, he met a man with palsied feet.
“If thou wilt be eyes to me, I will be feet to thee,” called the blind man, and, forthwith, he put the palsied man on his back. As they journeyed, they met a wizard, who said, “Would you prosper, that which you grasp hold with a secure hand.”