Prevod

(The showy covers of books can be most deceptive.) Passing through a mountain village, two young gentlemen seek lodgings. From two of the villagers 5 the two friends receive a thousand invitations. Wishing to slight neither, they decide to stay 10 one in each house. Each guest chooses the dwelling that suits his taste. The house that one prefers 15 has a spacious courtyard and a handsome façade, like a palace; above the doorway stands its coat of arms, 20 carved in stone. The other’s house is not so grand to look at, but within there is no lack of room to lodge, 25 for it has comfortable chambers, bright and clean. But that other palace with its fine façade 30 is not only cramped but dark and cold: a splendid entrance, and inside nothing but lofts beneath bare roof tiles. 35 The friend who spent a day so poorly lodged there told his companion how badly he had been taken in. But the other replied: 40 “Many books play just such tricks as that.”