At the mansion, he examined Dobrogi carefully.  He listened to the lord’s heartbeat and then shook his head in amazement.  Dobrogi noticed the doctor’s worried face and asked fearfully, “Don’t you think you can cure me?”

“I’ll do my best to cure you.”

Dobrogi was relieved and smiled.  Matthew Goose then ordered the lord’s cook to light a fire and boil some water for a hot bath.  He then sent all of the servants into the woods to collect certain kinds of herbs and roots. 

Soon there was no one in the mansion except Dobrogi and Matthew Goose.  After he made sure that they were all alone in the house, Matthew picked up a thick cane, went up Dobrogi’s bed and said, “Get ready for the cure!”

Then he whipped Dobrogi with unusual vengeance.  The old lord could have shouted in pain, for now he was not even gagged.  But he was so terrified that he just stared silently and moaned.

“I am not a doctor,” said Matthew, “but Matthew Goose at your service, sir!”  Then Matthew opened a big chest of drawers and an old cupboard, and took all the money he found. 

Thus he collected the price of his geese once more.  Turning to Dobrogi, he said, “I have been here twice, and I will come once more!”

Of course, this beating made Dobrogi even sicker.  Soon the servants returned with the herbs and roots.  They asked the whereabouts of the foreign doctor, but all Dobrogi could do was moan, “That was no doctor!  That was Matthew Goose once more!”

Dobrogi had plenty of money, so finally he found a doctor able to cure him.  After this, he surrounded himself with bodyguards so that Matthew Goose could not get to him.

One day there was a fair in the town of Dobrog again.  Matthew Goose thought it was high time to look up Lord Dobrogi once again.  So he dressed up as a horse trader, got himself a fine steed, and set himself up at the fair right next to the other traders.