When the woman saw that this strange creature was her husband, with his face shaven and his chicks painted, she said," shame on you. Who has done this to you? Who has shaved you?"
   She ran into the house in rage and saw all the boxes thrown out, the shelves empty and the rugs gone she realized that a thief had come and taken everything. She ran outside again and told her husband," What was the matter with you? Were you dead or sleeping that you didn't protest?"
   "I was neither dead nor sleeping, but I knew you told all those people to come and force me to talk so I would have to water the calf." the man said.
   "Shame on your stubborn head! You lost what you had and what you'll never have. You lost your face, your money and your rugs all because of your stubbornness. And yet you are happy cause you don't have to water the calf." the woman said.
   "The wise men said when a man orders a woman must obey." the man said with a smile.
   "Oh stubborn man, you have lost your wife too. I am going away and I shall take the calf since you refuse to water it." the wife said. So the woman ran off down the street and the calf followed her.
   When she came to the edge she asked some children who were playing," Did you see a man with a satchel coming out of my house?". The children told her that a man  with a satchel had passed them half an hour ago and that he had taken the road across the desert.
   the woman took the calf's halter in her hand and started out across the desert soon she saw a man with a satchel walking ahead of her. She knew he was the thief so she hurried to catch up with him. She walked very fast and soon she caught up to the thief and passed him.
   "Where are you going,sister?" the thief called.
   "Oh stranger, I'm going to my home." she said in a weak voice.
   _"Why do you you walk so fast?"
   _"I must get to a hotel before it's dark, as I'm afraid to spend the night alone in the desert with no one to guard me but my calf. If I had someone to protect me, I should walk more slowly."
   _"If you walk more slowly we can walk together and I will protect you."
   _"I don't mind" she said smiling very sweetly at him.
   So the wife and the thief walked on together and the woman began to give him tender glances. "Oh stranger," she said, "How lucky I was to meet a fine, strong man to protect me and care for me." And she smiled even more sweetly and gave him a thousand loving glances from her dark eyes.
   the thief thought. "She is not bad looking." Then he asked, "Sister, don't you have a husband?"
   "If I had a husband would I be all alone in the desert with a calf?" the woman said.
   So they walked on and all the time the wife kept sighing and sending love glances at the thief. Before the afternoon was half over he asked her to be his wife and she agreed to go with him to the headman in the next town and get married.
   Now, the wife did not love the thief at all and certainly did not want to marry a thief. In fact, the farther she got from home the more she thought of her stubborn husband and she felt pity for him. But she had a plan.
   "And when we are married how will you feed me and clothe me?" she asked.
   "In my satchel there is money and clothes enough." he answered.
   _"Let me take a look in your satchel."
   _"Not now. You shall look when are married."