XXII REYNARD THE FOX 205

remember but how thou didst use me at the
well with two buckets,
hanging at one cord, and
running through one
pulley, which ever as one
went down the other
went up. I remember
how thou getting into one
of them, fell down into
the bottom of the well,
and there sat in great
danger and peril, so that
I ran thither with great
haste, and heard thee sigh

and make great moan;

 

 

then asking thee how
thou camest there, thou
answeredst me that thou

 

 

 

 

 

 

wert there a-fishing, and
hadst much fish, of which
thou hadst eaten so many

 

that you were ready to
break with swelling.
‘Then I asked how I
might come to thee, and
thou saidst, “Aunt, leap
into that bucket which