Buyers paused before his stall, and asked him:--
"How much for the shoes?"
"Ten ducats a pair," he answered; "or I may sell for nine; but certainly
for not less than eight."
This caused a great laugh and uproar in the market, and the stranger was
driven from it in derision and his shoes thrown after him.
Seeking the Jerusalemite who had deceived him, he said:--
"Why hast thou so treated me? did I so to thee in Athina?"
"Let this be a lesson to thee," answered the Jerusalemite. "I do not
think thou wilt be so ready to make sport of us in the future."
A young man, upon his journeys through the country, fell in with a young
woman, and they became mutually attached. When the young man was obliged
to leave the neighborhood of the damsel's residence, they met to say
"good-by." During the parting they pledged a mutual faith, and each
promised to wait until, in the course of time, they might be able to
marry. "Who will be the witness of our betrothal?" said the young man.
Just then they saw a weasel run past them and disappear in the wood.
"See," he continued, "this weasel and this well of water by which we are
standing shall be the witnesses of our betrothal;" and so they parted.
Years passed, the maiden remained true, but the youth married.
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