But I'll be bound the
fat man won't part with an ounce of his flesh, not to say eleven stone."
In return, Pig-Jaw gave them goat-meat to eat and goat-skins to wear, and sometimes they traded the goat-meat for fish and corn and
fat roots.
But when the brothers of Fountain Abbey saw who it was that sang, and how he was clad in the robes of a Gray Friar, they stopped suddenly, the
fat little Brother drawing his heavy eyebrows together in a mighty frown, and the thin Brother twisting up his face as though he had sour beer in his mouth.
Hearing this, the
fat man sat up a little stiffer than before, as if he had received a compliment, and still came the sounds:
The kind Mouse agreed, but the Cat slunk under the town wall to the church, and ate up half of the pot of
fat. 'Nothing tastes better,' said she, 'than what one eats by oneself,' and she was very much pleased with her day's work.
Tibo caught repeated references to
fat goats, sleeping mats, and pieces of copper wire.
I know nothing of where the pig was either bred or born; but he may have been the squire's for aught I can tell: you know this country better than I do, take my pig and give me the goose.' 'I ought to have something into the bargain,' said the countryman; 'give a
fat goose for a pig, indeed!
Winkle mounted to the box, the
fat boy waddled to the same perch, and fell fast asleep instantly.
Down below there was a noise of cracking nuts and nibbling; and then the
fat squirrel voice and the thin squirrel voice sang--
With these expressions of condolence, the
fat gentleman shook hands with both ladies, and drawing up a chair, inquired how they found themselves.
He ran into the storeroom and brought out a gaudily painted harmonica, sat down on a bench, and spreading his
fat legs apart began to play like a whole band.
"Keep her for yourself," I said to the steward, "and if you have a
fat calf, bring that in her stead."