Matthew Goose refuses to allow Lord Dobrogi to cheat him out of his geese.

“Ma, I’ll take these geese to the Dobrog Fair.”

“What for?” asked his mother.  “We can sell them here at home.”

But Matthew did not listen to his mother.  He prepared to go to the fair.  His mother finally agreed to help him, and baked a big pan of biscuits.  “If he really wants to go, I’ll let him,” she thought.

First Matthew took the three grown geese back to the pasture.  Then he drove the sixteen goslings to the fair.

When he reached the marketplace, he found many people there. 

He looked around to find a good place for himself, and then settled down to wait for some customers.  Soon, a rich landowner, Lord Dobrogi, walked up to Matthew and asked the price of his geese.

“I’ll sell you a pair for two silver talers,” said Matthew.  “I wouldn’t sell them for less even to my own father.”

“Now listen to me, you rascal,” Lord Dobrogi said.  “No one has ever fixed the price of his goods for me, and neither will you.  Give them to me for two florins, or else you’ll be sorry!”

“I will not!  I already told you, the price of the goslings is two silver talers a pair.”

Two henchmen stood behind Dobrogi, who called to them and said, “Seize this fellow and take him to my manor.  And take these geese there too.”

The guards took Matthew to Dobrogi’s house, and stole the geese away from him.  After that Lord Dobrogi ordered twenty-five lashes for Matthew.  That was to be the price of the geese.