He just stopped on the way to pick up a good dinner , and the next day spent most of his gains in buying a small vineyard . Meanwhile the robbers had arrived at the cave where they lived , and the captain , calling them all round him , announced that it as his right to have the donkey for the first night . His companions agreed , and then he told his wife to put a mattress in the stable . She asked if he had gone out of his mind , but he answered crossly , ` What is that to you ? Do as you are bid , and to-morrow I will bring you some treasures . ' Very early the captain awoke and searched the stable , but could find nothing , and guessed that Master Joseph had been making fun of them . ` Well , ' he said to himself , ` if I have been taken in , the others shall not come off any better . ' So , when one of his men arrived and asked him eagerly how much money he had got , he answered gaily , ` Oh , comrade , if you only knew ! But I shall say nothing about it till everyone has had his turn ! ' One after another they all took the donkey , but no money was forthcoming for anybody . At length , when all the band had been tricked , they held a council , and resolved to march to the shoemaker 's house and punish him well for his cunning . Just as before , the shoemaker saw them a long way off , and began to think how he could outwit them again . When he had hit upon a plan he called his wife , and said to her , ` Take a bladder and fill it with blood , and bind it round your neck . When the robbers come and demand the money they gave me for the donkey I shall shout to you and tell you to get it quickly . You must argue with me , and decline to obey me , and then I shall plunge my knife into the bladder , and you must fall to the ground as if you were dead . There you must lie till I play on my guitar ; then get up and begin to dance . ' The wife made haste to do as she was bid , and there was no time to lose , for the robbers were drawing very near the house . They entered with a great noise , and overwhelmed the shoemaker with reproaches for having deceived them about the donkey . ` The poor beast must have lost its power owing to the change of masters , ' said he ; ` but we will not quarrel about it . You shall have back the fifty gold pieces that you gave for him .
` Aite , ' he cried to his wife , ` go quickly to the chest upstairs , and bring down the money XXXXX these gentlemen . '
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