“If any one comes, you will let the hare loose; she will find me, no matter where I may be.”
A man comes to the parsonage to say that a sick person is asking for the priest. She immediately lets the hare loose, being quite sure that that would be enough. But the priest did not return. The man got tired of waiting, and went off. The housekeeper told the priest that she had let the hare loose, and that she had seen nothing more of it.
In a rage, he goes to the huntsman’s house. But Petarillo, seeing him coming in a rage, gives a wine-skin to his wife, and says to her:
“Put this under your jacket. When the priest is here, I will plunge a knife into you in a rage, and you will fall as if you were dead; and when I shall begin to play the flute, you will get up as if yon were alive.”
The priest arrives in a great rage, (they all three dispute), and the man stabs his wife. She falls on the ground, and the priest says to him:
“Do you know what you have done?”
He replies, “It is nothing; I will soon put it to rights.”
And he takes his flute, and begins to play. She gets up all alive again, and the priest says to him:
“Do sell me that flute, I beg you.”
He answers that it is of great value, and that he will not sell it.