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Melchior, a witty and impertinent drifter, interviews for a servant position with Zangler, a self-important shopkeeper. Through a series of linguistic misunderstandings and clever wordplay, Melchior manages to negotiate his way into the job while subtly undermining Zangler's authority.
ZANGLER: This place is beginning to lose its chic for me. I bestride the mercantile trade of this parish like a colossus, and run a bachelor establishment second to none as far as the eye can see, and I'm surrounded by village idiots and nincompetent poops of every stripe.
MELCHIOR: Excuse me, are y
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