vicar, he thought within himself, if, perchance, by any accident that sow had entered the famous hole of Bech, but until those times inscrutable. He questioned, in his mind, how he should make himself the thorough-searcher of the secret place. He entered the cavern in a time then tranquil from all wind, and when he had proceeded a long way, at length he came by chance from darkness into a lucid place, opening into a spacious plain of fields. Having entered the land widely cultivated, he found persons collecting mature fruits, and, among the standing corn, he recognized the sow, which had multiplied from herself sucking pigs. Then the swineherd, being astonished, and rejoicing at his 'recovered' loss, received the sow, and dismissed with joy, led her to the herd of swine.[1]
- ↑ Gervase of Tilbury, Otia imperialia, apud Scriptores rerum Brunsvicensium, à Leibnitz, 1, 975.
