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was being done in his tsardom, and again gave a
grwne to each one of them; but to the unlucky Tsar
he gave a double portion a meat and drink and
three grivnt.

And again, after three years, he made yet another
banquet, and proclaimed that all should come, both
rich and poor, both earls and churls. And all the
people came and ate and drank and bowed low before
the Tsar and thanked him, and made ready to depart.
The unlucky Tsar was also on the point of going,
when the angel Tsar stopped him, and took him aside
into the palace, and said to him: “Lo! God hath
tried thee and chastised thy pride these ten years.
But me He sent to teach thee that a Tsar must have
regard to the complaints of his people. So thou wast
made poor and a vagabond on the face of the earth
that thou mightest pick up wisdom, if but a. little.
Look now, that thou doest good to thy people, and
judgest righteous judoment, as from henceforth thou
shalt be Tsar again, but I must fly back to God in
heaven.”—And when he had said this he bade them
wash and shave him (for hig beard had grown right
down to his girdle), and put upon him the raiment of
a Tsar. And the angel said further: “Go now into
the inner apartments. There the courtiers of the
Tsar are sitting and making merry, and none will
recognize in thee the vagabond old man. May God