ABSTRACT
Once upon a time there was a tailor who had a wife called GnuraGrazia.232 The tailor’s name was Don Giuseppe, and he earned hisliving by visiting people’s homes to cut clothing for them. One day he received a summons from the king to come and do some work
at the palace. Now it happened that Don Giuseppe’s house was next to the royal palace, and there was a common wall with a small passageway that led directly into the king’s chambers. So, when Don Giuseppe’s wife found that her husband was spending a lot of time at the palace, she poked her head through the opening in the wall in order to see what he was doing. Then she went back into her house and began calling loudly for her husband, saying that she needed him at once. Don Giuseppe had to beg the king’s permission to go back home and see what his wife wanted, and the king granted it.
