Question

Here is the news of the village; La Berrueca has married her daughter to a good-for-nothing painter, who came here to paint anything that might turn up. The council gave him an order to paint his Majesty's arms over the door of the town-hall; he asked two ducats, which they paid him in advance; he worked for eight days, and at the end of them had nothing painted, and then said he had no turn for painting such trifling things; he returned the money, and for all that has married on the pretence of being a good workman; to be sure he has now laid aside his paint-brush and taken a spade in hand, and goes to the field like a gentleman.

Accepted Answer

Las nuevas deste lugar son que la Berrueca casó a su hija con un pintor de mala mano, que llegó a este pueblo a pintar lo que saliese; mandóle el Concejo pintar las armas de Su Majestad sobre las puertas del Ayuntamiento, pidió dos ducados, diéronselos adelantados, trabajó ocho días, al cabo de los cuales no pintó nada, y dijo que no acertaba a pintar tantas baratijas; volvió el dinero, y, con todo eso, se casó a título de buen oficial; verdad es que ya ha dejado el pincel y tomado el azada, y va al campo como gentilhombre.

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