'Ever so little did you say, gossip?' said the other; 'by God, I'll not give in to anybody, not even to the asses themselves.' 'We'll soon see,' said the second regidor, 'for my plan is that you should go one side of the forest, and I the other, so as to go all round about it; and every now and then you will bray and I will bray; and it cannot be but that the ass will hear us, and answer us if he is in the forest.'
''Ahora lo veremos -respondió el regidor segundo-, porque tengo determinado que os vais vos por una parte del monte y yo por otra, de modo que le rodeemos y andemos todo, y de trecho en trecho rebuznaréis vos y rebuznaré yo, y no podrá ser menos sino que el asno nos oya y nos responda, si es que está en el monte''.