They made the broth in a bowl of beaten gold and fed it to O Haru San.
Immediately she was well and all was joy in the emperor’s house.
The emperor said, “Ito, is she, who brought this blessing, paid?”
Ito answered, “Yonder she waits at the entrance of the town.”
The emperor himself in his great joy went with Ito to meet her.
But they found only a dog-fox dead.
Around his neck they read this message, “This is my husband here.
“For his child he gives his liver to the princess, dear. I, his very lowly wife, have brought it.”
