Those stories sure were jolly! I kept imagining a bunch of old men drinking and telling each other crazier and crazier stories as the night went on, haha. I was glad to have parralel text for this, because it was written in a bit outdated Japanese, which I am not familiar with (e.g. おっかさん instead of お母さん and なってしもうた instead of なってしまった). Maybe it's also in dialect?