After that, the Prince asks, "Whose house is that, mother?"

Then the woman says, "Ane! Son, at that house an extremely wicked

[294] woman gambles. Should anyone go to gamble she gives him golden

chairs into which she puts [magical] life, to sit upon. She has put

[magical] life into the lamp also. [When gambling], the woman is

sitting upon the silver chair," she said.

After that, after the woman went to sleep, the Prince having emptied

the pieces of plate in the house, went to gamble [after] filling the

bag with the [woman's] masuran.

Afterwards, that gambling woman just as on other days having brought a

golden chair, placed it for the Prince. Then the Prince says, "I am not

accustomed to sit on golden chairs. Give me the silver chair," he said.

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