himself (as well as Nicholas), he needed to prepare large tubs with supplies and stash them on the roof. Nicholas then proposed that the three of them get on the roof with their vessels on the night of the great flood so they could be saved. The carpenter prepared the tubs as Nicholas had suggested. On the night of the “flood”, the three of them get on the roof as planned. The Carpenter falls asleep, and then Nicholas and the carpenter’s wife sneak down into the bedroom and make love. Later that night, Absalom comes to the window and tries to woo the carpenter’s wife by proclaiming his undying love for her. The carpenter’s wife tells him to go away, but he is relentless. Finally, she concedes to give him a “kiss”. She tells Nicholas to get ready to laugh and thrusts her ass out the window, and because it is dark, Absalom kisses that but realizes his mistake after he feels hair! Absalom is enraged, and he goes into town and borrows a hot colter from the blacksmith. Then he returns to The carpenter’s house and says that he has brought his love a ring. Nicholas then sticks his ass out the window, expecting Absalom to kiss it, but Absalom smites him in the ass with the hot colter, burning the skin off of Nicholas’s buttocks. Then the commotion starts as Nicholas screams for water which wakes up the carpenter who fears the flood is coming and cuts loose the tubs which fall, along with him, to the ground from off the roof, which causes him to break his arm. The entire town laughs at the carpenter for his foolishness and his injuries, and Nicholas and the carpenter’s wife deny the flood story. So, the lust of Nicholas is punished with the scorching of his ass, the foolhardiness of the carpenter is punished by his injury and his being ridiculed by the town, and the lust of Absalom is punished by his kissing of the ass. In this way the story shows the moral that if you ma...
