PRINCE BEDER AND
THE PRINCESS GIAUHARA.

OUNG PRINCE BEDER was ..
' brought up and educated in the
palace under the care of the King.
and Queen of Persia. He gave them
great pleasure as.he advanced in
years by his agreeable manners, and
by the justness of whatever he said;

King Saleh his uncle, the queen his.

grandmother, and the princesses his.

relations, came from time to time to
see him. He was easily taught to
read and write, and was instructed in all the sciences that became
a prince of his rank.

When he arrived at the age of fifteen he was very wise and
prudent. The king, who had almost from his cradle discovered in
him these virtues so necessary for a monarch, and who moreover
began to perceive the infirmities of old age coming upon himself
every-day, would not wait till death gave him possession of the
throne, but purposed to resign it to him. He had no great difficulty
to make his council consent to it; and the people heard this with so
much the more joy, because they considered Prince Beder worthy to
govern them. They saw that he treated all mankind with that
goodness which invited them to approach him; that he heard
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