THE TWO PRINCES.

HERE was once upon a time a Tsar
who had two sons, and these sons
went a-hunting in the forest and
there lost themselves. They wan-
dered on and on for twelve

 

weeks, and at the end of the
twelve weeks they came to a place
where three roads met, and the elder brother
said to the younger: “My brother, here our roads
part. Thou take the road on that side, and I'll take
the road on this.” Then the elder brother took a
knife and stuck it into the trunk of a maple-tree by
the roadside, and said: ‘“ Look now, brother, should
any blood drip from the blade of this knife it will be a
sign that I am perishing, and thou must go and seek me;
but if any blood flow from the handle, it will be asign
that thou art perishing, and J will then go and seek
thee.” Then the brothers embraced each other and