Strange customs among the inhabitants of the village that Tony Duver describes. The hour tells them, the flayer roasts their plump children, the writer composes dirty anonymous letters, the jumper takes the virginity of grooms, the judge proposes crimes to those in prison, the ferryman encourages the drowning, and the doctor castrates beavers. Here a wiper, a fiddler and a poultry farmer work, and the profession of a philosopher goes to a cripple living in a pigsty.