ABSTRACT

A certain Farmer and his three Wives used to work on their farm, but one day the Women said that they would not do any more hoeing, that they were tired of it; so the Husband said "Very well." But he concocted a trick. He made three loin-cloths (1), and hid them, and next morning he called his Chief Wife aside, and said to her " See this loin-cloth, I give it to you to tie on, but do not tell the others, for there is a certain charm for child-birth in it, and if you tie it on, you will have a Son" (2). So she replied "Very well, good," and she put it on.