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The woman clucked to the oxen, and forthwith they moved on down the highroad. The shadows were beginning to darken, and the birds had ceased to sing. "Hiew! Hiew! Come up! Come up!" the woman urged on the great white oxen. "It is growing late, and the good man will wonder why we are so long returning from market. This has been our holiday," she explained to Gigi.
For when we had passed through many townes and villages, I fortuned to espy a pleasant garden, wherein beside many other flowers of delectable hiew, were new and fresh roses: and being very joyful, and desirous to catch some as I passed by, I drew neerer and neerer: and while my lips watered upon them, I thought of a better advice more profitable for me, lest if from an asse I should become a man, I might fall into the hands of the theeves, and either by suspition that I were some witch, or for feare that I should utter their theft, I should be slaine, wherefore I abstained for that time from eating of Roses, and enduring my present adversity, I did eat hay as other Asses did.
"Do not speak of it! Hiew, hiew! Go on! go on!" And she urged the oxen faster. But the great beasts would not hasten their pace for her. The noise came nearer. They could hear that it was the trotting of hoofs. "There is only one animal," said Gigi, whose ears were keen. "I can hear his four feet patter. I think it is the donkey!" "I can see him now!" cried Paolo. "It is a little man on a donkey.
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