The Naked Guest

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Once there was a very poor youth, and as he was so poor he set off to look for work somewhere far away. He walked and walked, and toward evening he got caught by a strong rain and wind storm, and he decided to seek shelter for the night in the last house of some distant village. He knocked at the door. The old master of the house came out to see who was knocking, and the youth said to him:

"I'm as blind as a bat out here, friend, have mercy. Take me into your house for the night."

"You can come in but you'll have to strip naked. At times like this we all strip naked at home," the old man said to him.

Although the youth was embarrassed, he had no choice, so he stripped naked. He walked in and looked around the room: the old man was naked, his two daughters-in-law were naked, and they warmed themselves by the fire.

"Sit down and warm yourself," said the old man, "and don't be ashamed, all of us are naked, this is our custom."

The youth walked up to the fire and began to warm himself. But after a short while his thing, the devil take it, got hard on him. He didn't expect it. The old man saw it and said to him:

"What? Did the heat make your thing get hard?"

Then he said to the older daughter-in-law:

"Go, take this young man into the other room, let him soften his thing."

The young man went with her, and they did it. Again he walked to the fire to warm himself. But, this was a young man. He warmed himself, and after a short while he got hard again. The old man said to him:

"Oh, the damned thing, did it get hard again?"

He told the younger daughter-in-law to go with him into the other room. The youth did it again and said to himself:

"This is a good place to visit, I'll come here again when I'm caught in the rain."

He slept through the night, and in the morning they dried his clothes and let him go. After some time, when it was raining again, the youth came knocking at the old man's door in the evening:

"Come in, come in," said the old man.

The youth stripped right at the door and went straight to the fire. But there were sitting the old man's sons, not his daughters-in-law. The youth warmed himself at the fire, and the older son's prick got hard. The old man said:

"Get up, young man, go into the next room and go to it with my son!"

The lad moaned and groaned but he survived it somehow. He never thought of going to that house again.