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1There was once a man called Frederick: he had a wife whose name was Catherine, and they had not long been married. One
2day Frederick said. 'Kate! I am going to work in the fields; when I come back I shall be hungry so let me have something
3nice cooked, and a good draught of ale.' 'Very well,' said she, 'it shall all be ready.' When dinner-time drew nigh,
4Catherine took a nice steak, which was all the meat she had, and put it on the fire to fry. The steak soon began to look
5brown, and to crackle in the pan; and Catherine stood by with a fork and turned it: then she said to herself, 'The steak
6is almost ready, I may as well go to the cellar for the ale.' So she left the pan on the fire and took a large jug and
7went into the cellar and tapped the ale cask. The beer ran into the jug and Catherine stood looking on. At last it
8popped into her head, 'The dog is not shut up--he may be running away with the steak; that's well thought of.' So up she
9ran from the cellar; and sure enough the rascally cur had got the steak in his mouth, and was making off with it. Away
10ran Catherine, and away ran the dog across the field: but he ran faster than she, and stuck close to the steak. 'It's
11all gone, and "what can't be cured must be endured",' said Catherine. So she turned round; and as she had run a good way
12and was tired, she walked home leisurely to cool herself. Now all this time the ale was running too, for Catherine had
13not turned the cock; and when the jug was full the liquor ran upon the floor till the cask was empty. When she got to
14the cellar stairs she saw what had happened. 'My stars!' said she, 'what shall I do to keep Frederick from seeing all
15this slopping about?' So she thought a while; and at last remembered that there was a sack of fine meal bought at the
16last fair, and that if she sprinkled this over the floor it would suck up the ale nicely. 'What a lucky thing,' said
17she, 'that we kept that meal! we have now a good use for it.' So away she went for it: but she managed to set it down
18just upon the great jug full of beer, and upset it; and thus all the ale that had been saved was set swimming on the
19floor also. 'Ah! well,' said she, 'when one goes another may as well follow.' Then she strewed the meal all about the
20cellar, and was quite pleased with her cleverness, and said, 'How very neat and clean it looks!' At noon Frederick came
21home. 'Now, wife,' cried he, 'what have you for dinner?' 'O Frederick!' answered she, 'I was cooking you a steak; but
22while I went down to draw the ale, the dog ran away with it; and while I ran after him, the ale ran out; and when I went
23to dry up the ale with the sack of meal that we got at the fair, I upset the jug: but the cellar is now quite dry, and
24looks so clean!' 'Kate, Kate,' said he, 'how could you do all this?' Why did you leave the steak to fry, and the ale to
25run, and then spoil all the meal?' 'Why, Frederick,' said she, 'I did not know I was doing wrong; you should have told
26me before.' The husband thought to himself, 'If my wife manages matters thus, I must look sharp myself.' Now he had a
27good deal of gold in the house: so he said to Catherine, 'What pretty yellow buttons these are! I shall put them into a
28box and bury them in the garden; but take care that you never go near or meddle with them.' 'No, Frederick,' said she,
29'that I never will.' As soon as he was gone, there came by some pedlars with earthenware plates and dishes, and they
30asked her whether she would buy. 'Oh dear me, I should like to buy very much, but I have no money: if you had any use
31for yellow buttons, I might deal with you.' 'Yellow buttons!' said they: 'let us have a look at them.' 'Go into the
32garden and dig where I tell you, and you will find the yellow buttons: I dare not go myself.' So the rogues went: and
33when they found what these yellow buttons were, they took them all away, and left her plenty of plates and dishes. Then
34she set them all about the house for a show: and when Frederick came back, he cried out, 'Kate, what have you been
35doing?' 'See,' said she, 'I have bought all these with your yellow buttons: but I did not touch them myself; the pedlars
36went themselves and dug them up.' 'Wife, wife,' said Frederick, 'what a pretty piece of work you have made! those yellow
37buttons were all my money: how came you to do such a thing?' 'Why,' answered she, 'I did not know there was any harm in
38it; you should have told me.' Catherine stood musing for a while, and at last said to her husband, 'Hark ye, Frederick,
39we will soon get the gold back: let us run after the thieves.' 'Well, we will try,' answered he; 'but take some butter
40and cheese with you, that we may have something to eat by the way.' 'Very well,' said she; and they set out: and as
41Frederick walked the fastest, he left his wife some way behind. 'It does not matter,' thought she: 'when we turn back, I
42shall be so much nearer home than he.' Presently she came to the top of a hill, down the side of which there was a road
43so narrow that the cart wheels always chafed the trees on each side as they passed. 'Ah, see now,' said she, 'how they
44have bruised and wounded those poor trees; they will never get well.' So she took pity on them, and made use of the
45butter to grease them all, so that the wheels might not hurt them so much. While she was doing this kind office one of
46her cheeses fell out of the basket, and rolled down the hill. Catherine looked, but could not see where it had gone; so
47she said, 'Well, I suppose the other will go the same way and find you; he has younger legs than I have.' Then she
48rolled the other cheese after it; and away it went, nobody knows where, down the hill. But she said she supposed that
49they knew the road, and would follow her, and she could not stay there all day waiting for them. At last she overtook
50Frederick, who desired her to give him something to eat. Then she gave him the dry bread. 'Where are the butter and
51cheese?' said he. 'Oh!' answered she, 'I used the butter to grease those poor trees that the wheels chafed so: and one
52of the cheeses ran away so I sent the other after it to find it, and I suppose they are both on the road together
53somewhere.' 'What a goose you are to do such silly things!' said the husband. 'How can you say so?' said she; 'I am sure
54you never told me not.' They ate the dry bread together; and Frederick said, 'Kate, I hope you locked the door safe when
55you came away.' 'No,' answered she, 'you did not tell me.' 'Then go home, and do it now before we go any farther,' said
56Frederick, 'and bring with you something to eat.' Catherine did as he told her, and thought to herself by the way,
57'Frederick wants something to eat; but I don't think he is very fond of butter and cheese: I'll bring him a bag of fine
58nuts, and the vinegar, for I have often seen him take some.'
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