learn seemed pleasant andalmost of course; to lend a hand,

most excellent of all the gods, come in here with me; this is the

house you must fill with riches to-day, by fair means or foul.

I don't at all like going into other folks' houses in this manner;

I have never got any good from it. If I got inside a miser's house,

straightway he would bury me deep underground; if some honest fellow

among his friends came to ask him for the smallest coin, he would deny

ever having seen me. Then if I went to a fool's house, he would

sacrifice in dicing and wenching, and very soon I should be completely