After that, the whole of the seven Princes having [thus] met together, came to the Princes’ city. Thereupon, the King and the seven Princes went to the river to bathe. When they were bathing a crow cawed; then the King said, “Who can explain the language of that crow?”
Then the Prince who knows the crows’ language said, “I can. That cawed, having been at the place where it is roosting on the eggs.”
Then the King said, “Who can take the eggs by stealth [without disturbing the crow]?” The two who stayed in the gang of thieves having said, “We can,” the two Princes taking the crow-eggs gave them to the King.
After that the King and the seven Princes having come to the city, the King asked, “Who can say sooth?” The eldest Prince said, “I can,” he said.
The King said, “Look and find by sooth seven Princesses for you seven persons,” he said.
Afterwards the Prince having looked by sooth, said, “At such and such a city there is a Princess; at such and such a city there is a Princess.” Saying and saying [this], he mentioned separately seven Princesses who are at seven cities.
Then the King said, “Who can, [after] stealing them, come with those seven Princesses?” The two who remained in the gang of thieves having said, “We can,” that day night having gone and having stolen two and come back, he gave the two Princesses to the eldest elder brother and the next elder brother.
On the following day night having gone and having come back [after] stealing a Princess, he gave the Princess to the next elder brother.
On the following day they went, and [after] stealing two Princesses for the [next] two persons, thereafter they went back to the very gang of thieves.
Tom-tom Beater. North-western Province.