Fruits of Culture

Three peasants come to the husband's house and beseech the husband to sell them land. He consults the spirits and, based upon what he understands is their reply, refuses. The peasants beg him saying that they need the land to sustain their life, but their plea does not help. One of the peasants is the father of the male servant. The female servant wants his permission for the marriage and says that she will try to persuade the master to sell the land. She devises a trick. She tells her master that her fiancée is a spiritualist, and the master believes her and decides to use the servant's supposed abilities to contact dead spirits. When he does so, the female servant intends to have her fiancée tell him to sell the land.