Coming back one day he met a lady who wanted to buy it; they agreed on a price, and Egidio carried it to her house.

But when he arrived at the house she perceived him to be a friar, and would have given him more than the price agreed upon.

"My good lady," he replied, "I will not permit myself to be overcome by avarice," and he departed without accepting anything at all.
In the olive season he helped in the gathering; in grape season he offered himself as vintager.

One day on the Piazza di Roma, where men are hired for day's work, he saw a _padrone_ who could not find a man to thrash his walnut tree; it was so high that no one dared risk himself in it.

"If you will give me part of the nuts," said Egidio, "I will do it willingly." The bargain struck and the tree thrashed, there proved to be so many nuts that he did not know where to put his share.