"Well then, you ought to go there and buy a cow," says he.
"Don't be humbugging your mother or you'll have no luck," says she.
"Upon my word I am not humbugging," said he. "God sent a purse my way, and there is more than the price of a cow in it."
"Perhaps you did not get it honestly; tell me where did you find it?"
"I'll tell you nothing about it, except that I found it honestly, and if you have any doubt about my word, let the thing be."
Women are nearly always given to covetousness, and she was not free from it.
"Give me the price of the cow."
He handed her twenty pieces of gold. "You'll get a good cow for all that money," said he.
"I will," said she, "but I'd like to have the price of a pig."
"Do not be greedy, mother," said he; "you won't get any more this time."