so the judge sent his people out after the man, and they found the good servant, who had been going quite slowly along, and they found, too, the purse with the money upon him. as soon as he was taken before the judge he said, "i did not touch the jew, nor take his money; he gave it to me of his own free will, that i might leave off fiddling because he could not bear my music." "heaven defend us!" cried the jew, "his lies are as thick as flies upon the wall."