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wifhed well to every body. He often traveiled 
through his dominions, that he might know how the 
people lived ; and every where informed himself if 
they acted fairly. 
The Czar had a Czarina. The Czar and the 
Czarina lived harmoniously. The Czarina travelled 
with the Czar, and did not like to be absent from 
him. 
The Czar and Czarina arrived at a certain town 
built on a high hili in the middle of a wood, where 
a son was born to the Czar, and they gave him the 
name Ivan. But in the midst of this joy, and of a 
three days festivity, the Czar received the disa- 
greeable intelligence, that his neighbours do not 
live quietly,—make inroads into his territories, and 
do many injuries to the inhabitants of the borders. 
‘The Czar took the armies that were encamped in the 
_neighbourhood, and went with his troops to protect 
the borders. The Czarina went with the Czar; the 
Czarowitz remained in the same town and house in 
which he was born. The Czar appointed to him seven 
prudent matrons *, well experienced in the education 
of children. The Czar ordered the tow. to be for- 
tified with a stone wall, having towers at the. cor- 
ners ; but they placed no cannon on the towers, be- 
cause in those days they had no cannon. The house 
in which the Czarowitz remained, was built of Si- 
berian marble and porphyry, and was very neat and 
conveniently laid out. Behind the palace were 
* The original word is Nyanya. These Nyanyas are generally 
old women appointed to look after children, The wet nurse in Ruf 
is Sormilitsa, from the werd Kormit, which signifies to feed. 
