The priest goes to the house one day, and asks where the husband is. The woman says:
“I will send one of the hares with a letter to fetch him. No matter where he is, she will find him; he has trained them so well.”
And she lets one of the hares loose. They grew impatient at the long delay, and had given it up, when at last the husband came. His wife says to him, “I sent the hare.”
He answers, “I have it here.”
The astonished priest says to him, “You must sell me that hare, I beg you; you have trained it so well.”
A second time he says, “You must sell it me.”
And the man said to him, “I will not give it you for less than five hundred francs.”
“Oh! you will give it me for three hundred?”
“No, no.”
At last he gives it him for four hundred. The priest tells his housekeeper: