THE SALT OF LIFE

hot words passed between the father and the two sons,
and the end of the matter was that the king was driven
from the land to shift for himself.

Now, after the youngest prince had married and had
become king of that other land, he bethought himself of
his father and his mother, and longed to see them again.
So he set forth and travelled towards his old home. In

 

 

his journeying he came to a lonely house at the edge of
a great forest, and there night came upon him. He sent
one of the many of those who rode with him to ask
whether he could not find lodging there for the time, and
who should answer the summons but the king, his father,
dressed in the coarse clothing of a forester. The old king
did not know his own son in the kingly young king who
sat upon his snow-white horse. He bade the visitor to
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