so the man answered boldly, "yes;" for he did not know that his wife was going to have a child. after that, as was like enough, he caught plenty of fish of all kinds. but when he got home at night and told his story, how he had got all that fish, his wife fell a-weeping and moaning, and was beside herself for the promise which her husband had made, for she said, "i bear a babe under my girdle."