He goes off then to this house. The young lady says to him, after he had had a good supper:
“Before going to bed you must wash your feet. The water will be here in this big copper; when you have them quite clean you may come to bed.”
Accordingly he washes one, and when he has finished washing the other, the first washed is still black and dirty. He washes it again, and finds the foot that he has just well washed very dirty again. He kept doing like that for such a long time. When the young lady gets up, the gentleman says to her:
“What! You are getting up already, without me coming?”
“Why did you not then come before day? I cannot stay any longer in bed. It is daylight, and the people will begin (to come).”
Our young man withdraws as the other had done. Now it is the turn of her husband. She serves him still better than the others; nothing was wanting at his supper. When the hour for going to bed arrives, they go to the young lady’s room; when they are ready to get into bed, the young lady says to him:
“Put out the light.”
He puts it out, and it lights again directly. He puts it out again, and it lights again as soon as it is put out. He passes all the night like that in his shirt, never being able to put out that light. When daylight is come, the young lady says to him:
“You do not know me then? You do not remember how you left your wife to go and fetch a priest?”
As soon as she had said that he strikes his head, and says to her: