Loser's Guide to Life
As evening fell, Buddy Weasel sat at meat with his followers and told them the parable of the mountebank. For it seems that a certain mountebankor, as some insist, a jackanapeswas wandering around the neighbouring villages talking smut, and causing all kinds of trouble. But the villagers soon put a stop to it: they gave him a purse of florins and louis d'or and told him to go away. "All right", he said.