A parish priest had a visit from a friend. After dinner, he showed his friend the entire house.

After he had gone, the maid said, "I thought you invited a decent guest for dinner."

"Why do you say that?"

"Well, he stole a silver spoon."

Some time later, the same friend visited the priest again, and the priest said, "The maid told me that you stole a spoon."

"I say," said the friend, "didn't you find it then?"

"No," the maid said, "and I have looked everywhere."

"Really?" the visitor exclaimed. "Do you want to know where it is?"

They all climbed up to the maid's room.

The friend turned over the sheets in the maid's bed, and there lay the spoon, untouched.

Now the friend said to the priest, "I just wanted to know whether the maid sleeps with you, or you sleep with the maid."