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said he, in the Mayor's name, and follow me if thou wilt, and I can shew you the right way. When he went home, his wife asked where the trevet was?. He said it had three legs, and he had but two, and he had taught him the ready way to his house, therefore he might come himself if he would. Where did you leave the trevet ? said the woman. At Gotham bridge, said he. So she immediately ran and fetched the trevet herself; otherwise she must have lost it on account of her husband's want of wit.
TALE VI.
A CERTAIN smith of Gotham had a large wasp's nest in the straw at the
end of the forge, and there coming one of his neighbours to have his horse shod, and the wasps being exceeding busy, the man was stung by one of them. The man, being grievously affronted, said, Are you worthy to keep a forge or not, to have men stung with these wasps ? O neighbour, said the
