he had stolen them, and right glad was the husbandman to see
them. Then he brought out all the horses the robbers had, and
loaded them with the most valuable things which he could find--
vessels of gold and of silver, and clothes and other magnificent
things--and then he told the old woman to greet the robbers from
him and thank them from him, and say that he had gone away,
and that they would have a great deal of difficulty in finding him
again, and with that he drove the horses out of the courtyard.
After a long, long time he came to the road on which he was travelling
when he came to the robbers. And when he had got very near
home, and was in sight of the house where his father lived, he put
on a uniform which he had found among the things he had taken
from the robbers, and which was made just like a general's, and
drove into the yard just as if he were a great man. Then he entered
the house and asked if he could find a lodging there.

`No, indeed you can't!' said his father. `How could I possibly
be able to lodge such a great gentleman as you? It is all that I
can do to find clothes and bedding for myself, and wretched they
are.'

`You were always a hard man,' said the youth, `and hard you
are still if you refuse to let your own son come into your house.'

`Are you my son?' said the man.

`Do you not know me again then?' said the youth.

Then he recognised him and said, `But what trade have you
taken to that has made you such a great man in so short a