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Nevertheless he heartened himself with the hope of gaining the

lady's favours. When he had made an end of all their jobs, they

played him another trick and married him to their slave girl;

but, on the night when he thought to go in to her, they said to

him, "Lie this night in the mill; and to morrow all will go

well." My brother concluded that there was some good cause for

this and nighted alone in the mill. Now the husband had set on

the miller to make the tailor turn the mill: so when night was

half spent the man came in to him and began to say, "This bull of

ours hath be come useless and standeth still instead of going

round: he will not turn the mill this night, and yet we have

great store of corn to be ground. However, I'll yoke him perforce

and make him finish grinding it before morning, as the folk are

impatient for their flour." So he filled the hoppers with grain

and, going up to my brother with a rope in his hand, tied it

round his neck and said to him, "Gee up!