He met an old man who told him: - Good morning! Where do you go,
sir, so hurried?
Into Biella - the farmer answered without staying.
- You could add "If God wants".
The farmer stopped, he glanced at the old man and he replied - If
God wants, I shall go into Biella; and if God doesn't, I have to go
there anyway.
Now it happened (that) the old man was the Lord. - Then you will
go into Biella within seven years.
Suddenly the farmer changed into a frog, he jumped and he dived
into the slush. Seven years elapsed. The farmer went out from the slush,
he became again a man, he pressed down his hat onto his head, and he
retook the way to the market. After a few steps, that old man again: -
What is the beautiful place where you are going?
- Into Biella.
- You could add "If God wants".
- If God wants well; otherwise, I know the agreement, and I know
by myself how to dive into the slush.
And it was impossible to get
another word from his mouth.