kiss
     [] hat's the last straw," said the archpriest.  "I must
dismiss him at once."
     [] "But you can't  send field hands away,"  replied the
servants, "Until the cuckoo has sung."
     [] "We'll just make believe* the cuckoo is singing, then."
      He called Pirolo and said, "Listen, I have no more work
for you, so Godspeed* !"
     [] "What!" replied Pirolo.  "You know very well that you
can't dismiss me before the cuckoo has sung."
     [] "Very well, to be perfectly fair we'll wait for the cuckoo
to sing."
   “没错，他说叫我吻你们两个人!假如你们不
相信，我让他亲自告诉你们!”他走到窗口，向在外面
等着的大祭司喊道：“神父，一个还是一双?”
    围“咳，当然是一双!”大祭司高声回答，“一双!”
    “听见了吧?”皮罗鲁说完，吻了两个女仆每人
一下。接着，他拎起木屐，跑回到大祭司身边。大祭
司问他，“一只木屐我怎么能穿呢?”
    团大祭司做完弥撒回到教堂，发现两个女仆都
阴沉着脸，就问：“怎么啦?”
    “怎么啦?亏你问得出口!你居然吩咐那个
年轻人干那种事!要不是我们亲耳听见，我们决不
相信你会说出这种话来!”她们就把亲吻的事告诉大
祭司。
    “我再也忍受不了啦!”大祭司说，“我得马上
辞退他。”
    田“可是，”两个女仆提醒他说，“布谷鸟还没叫，
按规矩不能辞退干活的呀。”
    “那么，我们就假装布谷鸟的叫声。”
    他把皮罗鲁叫到跟前，说：“喂，我没有什么活
给你干了，你回家吧，祝你一路平安!”
    “怎么?”皮罗鲁反驳说，“你很清楚，在布谷鸟
叫以前不能赶我走。”
    “好吧，公平起见，咱们就等布谷鸟叫吧!”
      [] The old servant killed and plucked~ a few hens, sewing all
the feathers onto a waistcoat and a pair of breeches~ belonging to
the archpriest. She then dressed up in all those feathers and went
to the roof that night and sang, "Cuckoo! Cuckoo!"
     [] Pirolo was at the supper table with the archpriest.
     [] "Well, bless my soul!" exclaimed the priest, "I do believe
I h,ear the cuckoo singing."
    ' [] "Oh, no," answered Pirolo. "March has scarcely begun,
and the cuckoo never sings before May."
     [] Yet there was no denying it was singing:  "Cuckoo!
Cuckoo!" Pirolo ran and got the shotgun banging behind the
archpriest's bed, opened the window, and took aim at that big bird
singing on the rooftop. "Don't shoot! Don't shoot!" shouted the
archpriest, but Pirolo fired away.
     [] Down tumbled the feather-clad servant, riddled with
holes.
     [] This time the archpriest was blind with rage? "Pirolo, get
out, and don't ever let me see you again!"
     [] "Why? Are you angry, Father?"
     [] "I certainly am!"
     [] "Well, give me the three bags of money, and I'll go."
     [] So Pirolo went home with four bags of money, in addition
to all the proceeds~ from the sale of the pigs and sheep. He gave
his brothers back their shares, opened up a haberdashery~ with
his own, got married, and lived happily ever after.

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