孫翁者，余姻家清服之伯父也。素有膽。一日，晝臥，仿彿有物登床，遂覺身搖搖如駕雲霧。竊意無乃壓狐耶？微窺之，物大如貓，黃毛而碧嘴，自足邊來。蠕蠕伏行，如恐翁寤。逡巡附體：著足足痿，著股股耎。甫及腹，翁驟起，按而捉之，握其項。物鳴急莫能脫。翁亟呼夫人，以帶縶其腰。乃執帶之兩端，笑曰：「聞汝善化，今註目在此，看作如何化法。」言次，物忽縮其腹，細如管，幾脫去。翁大愕，急力縛之，則又鼓其腹，粗于碗，堅不可下；力稍懈，又縮之。翁恐其脫，命夫人急殺之。夫人張皇四顧，不知刀之所在。翁左顧示以處。比回首，則帶在手如環然，物已渺矣。
孙翁者，余姻家清服之伯父也。素有胆。一日，昼卧，仿佛有物登床，遂觉身摇摇如驾云雾。窃意无乃压狐耶？微窥之，物大如猫，黄毛而碧嘴，自足边来。蠕蠕伏行，如恐翁寤。逡巡附体：着足足痿，着股股耎。甫及腹，翁骤起，按而捉之，握其项。物鸣急莫能脱。翁亟呼夫人，以带絷其腰。乃执带之两端，笑曰：「闻汝善化，今注目在此，看作如何化法。」言次，物忽缩其腹，细如管，几脱去。翁大愕，急力缚之，则又鼓其腹，粗于碗，坚不可下；力稍懈，又缩之。翁恐其脱，命夫人急杀之。夫人张皇四顾，不知刀之所在。翁左顾示以处。比回首，则带在手如环然，物已渺矣。
Old Mr. Sun was the uncle of Qingfu, a relative of mine by marriage. He had always been a man of nerve. One day, as he lay napping in the daytime, he felt something climb onto the bed, and at once his body seemed to sway, as if he were riding on clouds and mist. He thought to himself: could this be a fox pressing down on me? He peeped out under his eyelids. The thing was the size of a cat, with yellow fur and a green snout, and it was coming up from the foot of the bed. It crept along, belly low, as if afraid of waking him. Little by little it climbed onto his body: where it touched his feet, his feet went limp; where it touched his thighs, his thighs went weak. The moment it reached his belly, he sprang up, pinned it down and seized it by the neck. The creature squealed shrilly but could not get free. He shouted for his lady to come quickly, and had her tie a sash round its waist. Then, holding the two ends of the sash, he laughed. “I hear you are good at changing shape. Well, my eyes are on you now. Let’s see how you change.” As he spoke, the creature suddenly drew in its belly until it was as thin as a pipe, and it nearly slipped out. Sun was startled and pulled the sash tight with all his strength. Then it swelled its belly out, thicker than a bowl and so hard the sash would not close on it; the moment he eased off a little, it shrank again. Afraid it would get away, he told his lady to kill it, quickly. She looked wildly about her and could not find the knife. Sun glanced to his left to show her where it was. When he turned back, the sash lay in his hands like a ring, and the creature was gone.