Once a carpenter was going home late at night from a strange village: he had been at a jolly feast at a friend’s house. As he came back an old friend met him who had died some ten years before.
“How do you do?”
“How do you do?” said the walker, and he forgot that his friend had long ago taken the long road.
“Come along with me: let us have a cup together once more.”
“Let us go.”
“I am so glad to have met you again, let us toast the occasion.”
So they went into an izbá , 5 and they had a drink and a talk. “Well, goodbye; time I went home!”