One day, the old woman says: Husband, today is the market day. You ride the horse, sell it or exchange it for something elseyou will never do anything wrong. The sun is blazing hot. There are no clouds in the sky. The road is dusty. Whats more, there is no where to shelter. Just then, a man approaches with a cow. The cow is healthy and better than others. It is sure to make the best milk! the peasant thinks. It would be a good buy for me to exchange the cow for the horse Hello, friend. he says. I think that the hose is worth more than the cow, but I dont mind. The cow is more useful to me. Will you trade with me? Certainly, I will. The man who is leading the cow says. So they trade. The peasant could have gone home because he had done what he wanted to do. But since he was on his way to the market, he resolves to go and have a look. Therefore, he continues up the road with the cow. In no time, he catches up with a man who is leading a sheep which is nice and fat with good wool. I want this very much, the peasant thinks in his heart, it can eat the grass beside the ditch. In winter, it can stay with me in the house. Maybe a sheep is better than a cowl. Then the peasant trades the sheep for the cow. After this, he leads the sheep onward. On the road, he see a man with a big goose under his arm near a fence. The peasant says: You have such a big goose! Its feathers are thick and it is fat. If I tie it and put it in the little pond, it is good. My wife can feed it, fruit peels and cabbages. She has often said I want to have a goose. Now she may realize her dream. The man agrees. So they trade. The peasant now owns a goose. He walks into the town. There so many people on the road. The people and the animals are like rabbits in a warren. The peasant comes to a ditch next to the fence of the taxmans potato field. A hen is tied in the field. Seeing this, the peasant thinks: This hen is the best one which I have seen. It is better than the priests hen. On my! I want this one. A hen can find grain and fend for itself. It will be a good buy if I trade the hen with the goose. May we trade? he says. Trade? The man says. Oh, thats not bad. So they trade. The taxman gets the goose and the peasant owns the hen. He has done a lot of business on the way to the market. It is hot and he feels tired. He wants to eat and drink something. He walks toward a tavern. As he is going in, a seller is coming out. They meet at the gate. What do you have in the sack? The peasant asks. Mashed apples the seller says. a bag of apples to feed pigs The peasant say: There are so many. I wish my wife could see this. Last year, our apple tree just produced three apples. We stored them in the cupboard until it split out. It is a fortune. My wife said. Now, she may see quite a fortune. Yes, I wish she could see this. How much? the seller asks. How much? I want trade it with the hen. So he gets a bag of mashed apples. When he goes into the tavern to the bar, he put the apples near the stove. He does not realize that the fire is burning. There are so many people in the room, including the horseman, the dealer and two Englishmen who are very rich. There is a sound: the fire is toasting the apples. What are those? Soon they know that the peasant traded the cow with a horse and continued to trade until he got a bag of mashed apples. Ah, when you go home, I am sure that your wife will hit you, the two Englishmen say, She will quarrel with you. She will give me a kiss and she will not hit me. the peasant says, my wife will say my husband is always correct. They say: we can bet one hundred and eleven pounds! The peasant says: I can juts bet a bag of mashed apples. Whats more, I may add my wife and myself to the bet. I think that makes it fair. Good, very good! they say. So the bet is made. The master drives out his cart. The two Englishmen and the peasant with mashed apples get on it. After a while, they reached the peasants house.
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