Chapter 124 123. Crake, Crook and Hawk

Once upon a time, there were three thieves named Crake, Crook, and Hawk.The three of them made a bet to see who would be the most skilled at stealing things.They went out for a walk, Crake at the head.He saw a magpie lying in its nest on the top of a tree, and said, "I can get the eggs out from under that magpie's body without the magpie seeing it. Do you want to see me show my hand?" "Okay, let's see what you can do." Crake climbs a tree to steal a magpie egg.As he reached for the egg, Crook cut off the heel of his shoe and hid it in his hat.However, before Crook put on the hat, Hawke had already stolen the heel of the shoe.Crake came down from the tree and said, "I have the best skill, because I got the eggs from under the magpie."

"No, I'm the best," said Crook, "because I cut off the heel of your shoe, and you don't know it yet." He took off his hat and wanted to show Crook the two heels. Only the heel, but the heel is gone. This time, Hawke spoke up: "I still have the best technique, I stole the heel of your shoe from your hat. Since I have the best technique, I plan to break up with you two, it is easier to do it alone Strong!" Hawke stole everywhere by himself, accumulated a lot of property, and became a rich man.He moved around a few cities, got married, and opened a butcher shop.Two other thieves, wandering about and stealing, came to the city at last, and saw the butcher's shop. "We go in

Well," the two of them conferred, "maybe we can steal something. " They went in and found the butcher's wife alone. "Good lady boss, can you give us something to eat?" "What do you want to eat?" "Let's have some cheese." While she was cutting the cheese, the two of them took a sneaky look around to see if there was anything to steal.They caught a glimpse of a piece of pork hanging on the shelf, and they signaled to each other that they would come to steal the piece of pork at night.Hawke's wife saw the signs, but said nothing.When her husband came home, she told him about it.Hawke, a habitual thief, knew right away what was going on. "It must be Crake and Crook, they're trying to steal this piece of meat. Well, wait and see!" He took the pork off the rack and put it on the stove.In the evening, he went to bed.In the middle of the night, Crake and Crook came to steal the meat.They looked everywhere, but couldn't find it.So Crook tiptoed to the Hawke couple's bed and said to Hawke's wife who was sleeping, "Hey, why can't I see that piece of meat? Where did you put it?"

Hawke's wife was sleepy and thought her husband was asking, so she replied, "Go back to sleep! You forgot, didn't you put it on the stove?" Then she turned over and fell asleep again up. Two thieves came to the stove, picked up the pork and slipped away.Crook led the way, and Crake followed behind carrying the pork.When walking past Hawke's vegetable garden, Crake saw chives growing in the field, so he walked a few steps, caught up with Crook, and said, "Go back and pull some chives in Hawke's vegetable garden. Green onions, we will use them when we go back to roast the meat."

Crook returned to the vegetable garden, and Crake continued on his way. At this time, Hawke woke up and went to the stove to see that the piece of pork was gone.He looked into the vegetable garden and saw Crook pulling chives. "Okay, let him pick the chives there now!" he said to himself.Hawke picked up a large handful of chives in the house and took advantage of the Crook didn't pay attention and slipped out. He caught up with Crake.At this time, Crake was walking forward with the heavy pork on his back, bent over tired.Hawke gestured to Crake, meaning let him recite for a while.In the dark, Crake thought that Crook had returned with chives, so he took the chives from the other party's hand and handed the pork to him.Hawke picked up the pork and immediately turned around and ran towards the house.

After a while, Crook caught up with him with chives and asked, "Where's the pork on your back?" "You carry it on your back." "I'm carrying? I'm not carrying anything!" "A few minutes ago, you gave me the chives, and I gave you the pork." "When did I carry pork? Didn't you tell me to pull the shallots just now?" They finally understood that Hawke had tricked them.Indeed, Hawke was the most skilled rogue of them all. (Irpino area)