Two thieves came to a house to steal something. They dug a hole in the wall of the house. One of them crawled ( 爬 ) into the house while the other waited outside. There lived a couple in the house. Just as the thief was trying to get into the house, the wife in the moonlight saw a mouse crawl into the house. “ Look! In comes one. ” She said to the husband in the house. The thief was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled out of the house and said to the one waiting outside: “ she found me when I was just in. ” T he thief outside didn’t believe him, s o he said “ let us try to crawl into the house together. ” At that time two mice happened to crawl into the house too. The wife saw the mice and shouted, “ In came two. Catch them! ” The two thieves were terribly frightened. The husband in the house said “ you saw them in but where are they? I will catch them tonight. ” The two thieves started running away at once. The two thieves wanted to make it clear whether they had been found or not the light before. The next day they acted as men selling sweet potatoes and came before the house. The husband and the wife were ploughing in their field. The rein (绳) broke and the wife came home for a rope. She saw two men selling sweet potatoes and wanted to buy some. She picked out two which looked like nice. At the time the husband couldn’t wait for her any longer in the fields and he ran back from the fields to hurry her up. The wife showed the sweet potatoes to the husband and said “ How they look like the two of last night! ” The husband said “ I asked you to fetch a rope. Why don’t you hurry for it? ” The two thieves ran away very quickly without their sweet potatoes.