Then the Minister says, "Tell me a mark of the Princess's."

Then the old woman said, "There is not another mark of the Princess's

to tell you; on the right thigh there is the birth-mark (upan-lakuna),"

she said to the Minister.

After the Minister went back to the palace he said to the King,

"Please tell that Prince to come," he said. The King caused the

Prince to be brought. Afterwards the Minister said to the Prince,

"On the right thigh of your younger sister there is the birth-mark

only; no other mark," he said. The Prince said, "Yes, [it is so]."

After that, the King commanded them to hang this Prince. The

Prince says to the King, "I must [first] look at younger sister,

and come." After that, the King sent the Prince with two men. The

Prince having gone to the floor of the upper story, and beaten the

Princess [and told her what the Minister said], the Prince came again

to the city in which is the King. The Princess having been weeping

and weeping went to sleep.

Afterwards the King, [in order] to hang the Prince, took him upon the

scaffold. That Princess learnt that he is hanging the Prince. After

that, the Princess having mounted on a horse, the King saw her come

driving it along. The King [said], "Don't hang the Prince just now."

Afterwards, the Princess having come, and descended from the back

of the horse, and tied the horse at a tree, the Princess sat on

a chair near the King. The Princess asks at the hand of the King,

"Why are these people [here] in this manner?"

The King says, "To-day I am hanging a Prince; because of it the people

have come."

After that, the Princess says to the King, "The Minister having been

keeping me three months, taking my slipper came away. Be good enough

to ask for it, and give me it."

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