int may,
Point keen and true, and show me the way.'

"As soon as he said this, the knife tumbled from his hand and fell to
the ground, the end of the keen blade pointing towards one of the many
footpaths. The boy picked it up, and it tumbled from his hand again,
pointing in the same direction. He picked it up the second time, and
again the knife fell from his hand and pointed to the footpath. For
the third time he lifted the knife from the ground, and as it fell no
more, he placed it in his wallet, and went on his way.

"Thus he continued for many hours. When he was in doubt about the
way, Keen-Point would show him. When he grew hungry, he ate the food
his mother had placed in his wallet. It was late in the day when he
started, and before he came to the spring and the pomegranate-tree,
the sun went down and night came on. The boy stopped under a
wide-spreading tree, said his prayers, placed his wallet under his
head for a pillow, and went to sleep.

"Bright and early the next morning he was up and going. Whenever he
had any doubt about the way, Keen-Point would show him, and before the
sun was up very high, he came in sight of the pomegranate-tree, with
its red and golden fruit, and he knew the spring was close by.

"As he went on he grew thirstier, and thirstier, and when he came to
where the cool, clear waters of the spring were bubbling from the
ground with a sort of gurgling sound, his throat and mouth seemed to
be as dry as paper. More than that, when he came to the spring, a
traveler was sitting on one of the stones that lay around, drinking
the water from a silver cup and peeling the rind from a pomegranate
with a silver knife. The traveler had a very pleasant face and
manner, and he spoke to the boy in the kindest way.

"'If you want some water,' he said, 'you may drink from my silver cup.
If you are hungry, you may peel a pomegranate with my silver knife.'

"The boy thanked the traveler and said that he would eat and drink
later in the day. He thought to himself that a man who could drink
from a silver cup and eat with a silver knife ought to be able to
travel in a carriage or on horseback, but there was no horse nor
carriage in sight.

"'Well,' said the traveler, 'if you will neither eat nor drink, you
can at least rest yourself.'

"So the boy seated himself on one of the big rocks close by the
spring, and the traveler began to ask him all sorts of questions. What
was his name, and where did he c