ABSTRACT
In long ago years there lived and dwelt in this certain village two young lads. They lived amicably, they went to gatherings together and treated each other as brothers. And they made this agreement between themselves that whoever should get married first would invite the other to his wedding, whether he was dead or alive, it didn’t matter. A year after this, one of the young men took ill and died and a few months later his comrade took it into his head to get married. So he gathered all his relatives together and they set out to fetch the bride. It so happened that they rode by the cemetery. The groom remembered his friend and he remembered the old agreement. He ordered them to stop the horses. He said, “I shall go by my friend’s grave and ask him to come to my marriage to celebrate. He was my truest friend.”
