said God, "it does not matter
that eighteen months of famine were still to last." As soon as they
heard the rain had fallen, all the ryots who had gone to other
countries on account of the famine returned to Raja Harichand's
country.

Among the Raja's servants was the kotwal, and very anxious he was,
when he came to life again, to find the Raja and Rani; only he did not
know how to do so, and wondered where he had best seek for them.

Meanwhile the Rani Bahan had a dream that God sent her, in which an
angel said to her, "It is good that you and your husband should return
to your country." She told this dream to her husband; and Raja Nal
gave them horses, elephants, and camels, that they might travel like
Rajas to their home, and he went with them. They found everything in
order in their own palace and all through their country, and after
this lived very happily in it. But the Rani said to Raja Harichand,
"If you had only done what I told you, and said you would give me to
the fakir, all this misery would not have come on us."

Later they went to stay again with Raja Bhoj, and slept in the same
room as they had had when they came to him poor and wretched. In the
night they saw the wall open, and the necklace came out of the crack
and hung itself up as before, and the wall closed again. The next day
they showed the necklace to Raja Bhoj, saying, "It was on account of
this necklace that we ran away from you the last time we were here,"
and they told him all that had happened to it.

As for Ganga Teli, they never went near him again.

Told by Muniya, March 4th, 1879.

[Decoration]

[Decoration]

XXX.

THE KING'S SON AND THE WAZIR'S DAUGHTER.

In a country there was a great king who had a wazir. One day he
thought he should like to play at cards with this wazir, and he told
him to go and get some for him, and then play a game with him. So the
wazir brought the cards, and he and the king sat down to play. Now
neither the king nor the wazir had any children; and as they were
playing, the king said, "Wazir, if I have a son and you have a
daughter, or if I have a daughter and you have a son, let us marry our
children to each other." To this the wazir agreed. A year after the
king had a son; and when the boy was two years old, the wazir had a
daughter. Some years passed, and the king's son was twelve years old,
and the wazir's daughter ten. Then the king said to the wazir, "Do you
remember how one day,