46 the rose without prickles, a tale. Sept. 124. 
Next morning before day break, the Han gathered 
his grandees, and spoke to them as follows: *“ Let 
** it be known unto you, that I yesterday carried 
“© off the Czarowitz Ivan, a child of uncommon 
* beauty and prudence. I with to know perfectly 
** whether all is true that is said of him; and I am 
‘* determined to employ every means of trying his 
** qualifications.” The grandees having heard the 
the Han’s words bowed themselves to the girdle. 
The flatterers among them praised the Han’s con- 
duct, when he had carried off a child, nay the child of 
a neighbouring Czar: the mean spirited approved, 
saying, ** right lord Han, our hope, whatever you 
“« do must be right*.” A few of them who really 
loved the Han, fhook their’ heads, and when the Han 
afked them why they held their tongues, they told 
him frankly,:‘* You have done wrong in carrying 
** off the son of a neighbouring Czar, and you can 
** not escape misfortune, unle{s you compensate for 
** this step.” The Han answered, ‘ Just so; you 
* are always discontented,’ and pafsed by them. He 
ordered the Czarowitz to be brought to him as soon 
as he fhould awake. he child seeing that they 
wifhed to carry him, said, ** Do not trouble your- 
selves, Ican walk. I will go myself.” Having come 
into the Han’s kibitka, he bowed to them all, first 
to the Han, and then to the rest on the right and 
left. He then placed himself before the Han with such 
* As I find I am unable to give a translation sufficiently exprefsive , 
wfthe sense of the original here, I fhall set it down with a literal 
translation. Tak na desha gofudar Han, kak inako bit kak tebe na 
serdtse prijdet; that is; So hope lord Han, how otherwise to be hora 
te you on the heart will come. 
