a28 the rose without priokles, a tale... Sept. 25. 
§* you the hill on which grows the rose without pric- 
*‘kles that stings not; butthe road is steep and full 
** of rocks.” Having said this he took his leave and 
went after his master. 
Ivan and his guide went cement to the hill, and 
founda narrow and rocky track on which they walk- 
ed with difficalty. They there met an old man and 
woman in white, both of a respectable appearance, 
who stretched out their staffs to them and said, 
‘* support yourselves on our staffs and you will not 
‘*stumble.”” The people thereabouts told them 
that the name of the first was vehi and, of the 
other Truth. 
Having got tothe foot of the hill, leaning on the 
staffs, they were obliged toscramble from the track 
' by the branches, andso from branch to branch they 
gotat length to the top of the hill, where they found 
the rose without prickles that stirgs not. They 
had no sooner pulled the flower, than ‘music was 
heard in a neighbouring temple; and it was e- 
very where spread abroad that the Czarowitz Ivan 
at so tender an age had found the rose without 
prickles that stings not. He made haste to the 
Han with the flower, and the Han dismifsed him 
to the Czar. The Czar was so well pleased with 
the: arrival of the Czarowitz and his succefs, that 
he forgot all his anxiety and grief. The Czar, the 
Czarina and all the people became daily more fond 
of the Czarowitz, because he daily advanced 14 vir- 
tue. Here the tale ends, and who knows better, let 
him tell another. 
