urtyard. The people in the kitchen
saw this too, and believed that it was still the same hare that was
running about, so they wanted to go out and catch it.

'It's a remarkably fine hare!' said the Governor. 'Come and let us see
if we can get hold of it.' So out he went, and the others with him, and
away went the hare, and they after it, in real earnest.

In the meantime, however, the Master Thief took the joint and ran off
with it, and whether the Governor got any roast meat for his dinner that
day I know not, but I know that he had no roast hare, though he chased
it till he was both hot and tired. At noon came the Priest, and when the
Governor had told him of the trick played by the Master Thief there was
no end to the ridicule he cast on the Governor.

'For my part,' said the Priest, 'I can't imagine myself being made a
fool of by such a fellow as that!'

'Well, I advise you to be careful,' said the Governor, 'for he may be
with you before you are at all aware.'

But the Priest repeated what he had said, and mocked the Governor for
having allowed himself to be made such a fool of.

Later in the afternoon the Master Thief came and wanted to have the
Governor's daughter as he had promised.

'You must first give some more samples of your skill,' said the
Governor, trying to speak him fair, 'for what you did to-day was no such
very great thing after all. Couldn't you play off a really good trick
on the Priest? for he is sitting inside there and calling me a fool for
having let myself be taken in by such a fellow as you.'

'Well, it wouldn't be very hard to do that,' said the Master Thief. So
he dressed himself up like a bird, and threw a great white sheet over
himself; broke off a goose's wings, and set them on his back; and in
this attire climbed into a great maple tree which stood in the Priest's
garden. So when the Priest returned home in the evening the youth began
to cry, 'Father Lawrence! Father Lawrence! 'for the Priest was called
Father Lawrence.

'Who is calling me?' said the Priest.

'I am an angel sent to announce to thee that because of thy piety thou
shalt be taken away alive into heaven,' said the Master Thief. 'Wilt
thou hold thyself in readiness to travel away next Monday night? for
then will I come and fetch thee, and bear thee away with me in a sack,
and thou must lay all thy gold and silver, and whatsoever thou may 'st
possess of this world's wealth, in a heap in thy best parlour.'

So Fat