But then the weather turned very bad with a wind and rain storm. Unable to continue on his way, he returned to the mill and asked for shelter.
The miller´s wife was alone in the house, and she said to the little peasant, "You can sleep in the straw there," and she gave him a piece of bread and cheese.
The little peasant ate and then lay down with his hide at his side. The woman thought, "He is tired and has fallen asleep."
In the meantime the priest arrived. The miller´s wife received him well, and said, "My husband is out, so we can have a feast."
The little peasant listened, and when he heard them talking about feasting he was angry that he had had to make do with a piece of bread and cheese. Then the woman served up four different things: a roast, salad, cake, and wine. They were just about to sit down and eat when someone knocked on the outside door.
The woman said, "Oh, God, it´s my husband." She quickly hid the roast inside the tile stove, the wine under the pillow, the salad on top of the bed, the cake under the bed, and the priest in the hallway chest.
Then opening the door for her husband, she said, "Thank heaven, you are back again. That is such a storm, as if the world were coming to an end."
The miller saw the little peasant lying in the straw and asked, "What is that fellow doing there?"
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