: 'I am the son of Yaroslav
Lasarevich.' When I heard these words I pardoned him; but the wound he
gave me is not yet healed."

Then Yaroslav delivered to his father another letter, from the knight,
Sir Raslanei, which ran as follows: "I, the great Tsar Raslanei
Prochorovich, to my younger brother, the great Tsar and powerful
knight, Yaroslav Lasarevich, send hearty greetings! And, with this
greeting, health and happiness to thee also, O Tsar, with thy fair
lady wife, Anastasia Vorcholomeievna, and thy son the brave knight
Yaroslav Yaroslavovich! Thy son has cleft my head and has pierced me
through with the butt-end of his lance, and my wounds remain still
unhealed; but I heard that he was thy son, and have pardoned him, and
sent him back to thee uninjured."

Then Yaroslav related to his father everything in order; and soon the
feast was prepared, and they all made merry, and were in great joy at
Yaroslav's return. Then began Yaroslav Lasarevich to praise the
bravery of his son, and to tell how he had overthrown Tsars and
powerful knights; whereat all the princes and boyars marvelled at his
bravery, and declared there were no other such knights in the world as
these, father and son, and that no one could stand against them.

Yaroslav Lasarevich subdued many cities to his dominion; and many
others, when they heard of his bravery, surrendered voluntarily to his
power. And he sat upon the throne in good health for twenty years, and
his age was forty-and-nine years and three months when he died. His
wife, Anastasia Vorcholomeievna, wept and was inconsolable for the
loss of her husband, and she also soon died of grief. And her son
Yaroslav wept for his father, the mighty knight Yaroslav Lasarevich,
and long too wept for his mother. Soon after he mounted the throne of
his father, and ruled with renown and glory.

W. JOLLY AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND.

Transcriber's Note

Inconsistent capitalisation has been preserved as printed.

Hyphenation has been made consistent.

Punctuation errors have been repaired.

Typographic errors have been amended as follows:

Page vi--highest amended to waving, for consistency--"The
Horse grew restive, reared higher than the waving forest"

Page vi--in amended to on, for consistency--"At length
they fell in with a cripple on the road"

Page 59--Tsarevitch amended to Tsarevich--"Early the
next morning Ivan Tsarevich awoke his mas