A widow who fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her。She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning，at cock_crow。The maidens ， aggravated by such excessive labor， resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early。When they had done this ， they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles，for their mistress， no longer hearing the hour from the cock，woke them up to their work in the middle of the night。

有一個寡婦特別喜歡搞衛生，他還僱了兩個小女僕來幫忙，寡婦有個習慣，總是在清晨公雞一叫，就把他們招呼起來做工，女僕們對自己繁重的工作感到很厭煩，就恨這個總是一大早就把主人叫醒的公雞，決心把他殺掉。可是等她們把公雞殺死以後，卻發現這一行為只為自己惹來更大的麻煩，因為主人再也聽不到雞叫，就比平時更早的叫他們起來幹活，她們日子更慘了。