ABSTRACT

A certain Thief lived with his Wife, and whatever he stole in the town he brought to her. So they went on for a long time, until one night the full moon was shining almost like the sun, and the Wife said " Well now, see, that full moon makes it easy to walk about, are you going to stay in the house?" and the Husband replied "Oh, all right, I'll go." So he started off, and went to his Father-in-Law's house, for the Father-in-Law had a certain big Ram, there was none like it in the whole town. The Thief went and took it away, and brought it to his Wife, and said " See what God has given us to-day" (1). Then she said " Good, but kill it now, lest when day has broken the Owner should see it, and know it to be his" (2). So he said "Very well, and he killed it, and skinned it, and cut up the flesh into small pieces.