“I have my husband, the Basa-Jaun, and if he catches you he will eat you; that’s certain.”
“And if he catches us outside he will eat us all the same.”
Then she let these three brothers come in, and she hides the three in three different corners. Afterwards, at nine o’clock, the Basa-Jaun comes. He made a great noise and blustering, and then the Basa-Andre goes out, and says to him:
“There is nobody here.”
“Yes, you have somebody; bring them out, or else I will eat you myself.”
And she goes and brings out the eldest brother, trembling with fright. The Basa-Jaun says to him,
“Will you be my servant?”
He says to him, “Yes.”
And Basa-Jaun begins again to sniff about.
“You have still somebody else here?”