And he showed his money in his bag, and told his friend all that had happened. The tailor was melting with envy, as he tried to count the money, and he thought: “Of course the lord is a fool for having given a bag full of money for a pig; I will run after him, and overtake him, and if all the wisdom is only in a pig’s hide, I’ll shave him clean, like a scribe.” Having said this, the senseless man started on the road. The lord was riding leisurely along, and as the tailor was running fast, he soon overtook him. He cried to him: “Wait, lord! I am not a Tartar, and I will not cut you down; I have no sword, and I will not injure you. I am all worn out with running; I am a cook, and not a thief.” The lord heard the words and, looking back, saw that it was not a robber with a club, so he reined in his horse. The tailor ran up to him, panting like a dog, and barely breathing, having lost his strength in running. The lord asked him: “Why, beast, have you been running so senselessly after me? You have only frightened me: I thought it was a robber with a club that was after me.” The tailor said: “I am not a thief, my lord!” To which the lord: “What manner of creature are you, then?” “I am a cook by trade, and know how to stew and roast well.” The lord asked him at once: “What is the sweetest part of the ox?” The rash man said: “The hide.” No sooner said than the cook’s sides and face, and belly and back were swollen, being struck with a whip. The tailor walked slowly off, weeping disconsolately, and cursing the lord and the trade of a cook. Mikhaíl Vasílevich Danílov. (1722-1790.) The _Memoirs_ of Danílov are interesting for the reason that they indicate the sources from real life from which Catherine II., Fon-Vízin and others drew the characters for their comedies. Thus, Matréna Petróvna of Danílov’s _Memoirs_ is the prototype of Mávra’s mistress in _O Tempora_ (p. 272) and of Mrs. Uncouth in _The Minor_, p. 342. FROM HIS “MEMOIRS”