, camels, in kine and much money. And safe and joyful he let
him depart from him, saying: The angel of God that is holy be in your
journey, and bring you home whole and sound, and that ye may find all
things well and rightful about your father and mother, and that mine
eyes may see your sons ere I die. And the father and mother taking
their daughter kissed her and let her depart, warning her to worship her
husband's father and mother, love her husband, to rule well the meiny
[retinue], to govern the house and to keep herself irreprehensible, that
is to say, without reproof.

When they thus returned and departed, they came to Charram, which is the
half way to Nineveh, the thirteenth day. Then said the angel to Tobias:
Tobias, brother, thou knowest how thou hast left thy father, if it
please thee we will go tofore and let thy family come softly after, with
thy wife and with thy beasts. This pleased well to Tobias; and then said
Raphael to Tobias: Take with thee of the gall of the fish, it shall be
necessary. Tobias took of the gall and went forth tofore. Anna his
mother sat every day by the way in the top of the hill, from whence she
might see him come from far, and whilst she sat there and looked after
his coming, she saw afar and knew her son coming, and running home she
told to her husband saying: Lo! thy son cometh. Raphael then said to
young Tobias: Anon as thou enterest in to the house adore thy Lord God,
and giving to him thankings, go to thy father and kiss him. And anon
then anoint his eyes with the gall of the fish that thou bearest with
thee, thou shalt well know that his eyes shall be opened, and thy father
shall see the light of heaven and shall joy in thy sight. Then ran the
dog that followed him and had been with him in the way, and came home as
a messenger, fawning and making joy with his tail. And the blind father
arose and began offending his feet to run to meet his son, giving to him
his hand, and so taking, kissed him with his wife, and began to weep for
joy. When then they had worshipped God and thanked him, they sat down
together. Then Tobias taking the gall of the fish anointed his father's
eyes, and abode as it had been half an hour, and the slime of his eyes
began to fall away like as it had been the white of an egg, which Tobias
took and drew from his father's eyes, and anon he received sight. And
they glorified God, that is to wit he and his wife and all they that
knew him.

Then said Tobit the