Note 5 — STORIES ACCOMPANIED BY TEXTS (continued 2)
Reading edition
He then crept to the house. While he was creeping along he fell into a deep hole into which they used to defecate. Then he was creeping into [the house] all covered with ordure. And his master’s wife said to him: “Yū′lᴀñ, you never used to ask how an affair was started.5 Look at yourself.” “Well, noble woman, it is not so bad as if I sat below by the creek.”6