Having struck them, when they took him to the city the King’s father says, “That thief is indeed like my son.” Having looked in the direction of that Prince who was wearing the royal ornaments, he said, “This indeed is not my son. What of that? There is a little like my son’s face.”
After that, the Prince who was wearing the royal ornaments, said, “Ask at your son’s hand who I am”; he said it at the hand of the Prince’s grandfather.[4]
When he (the grandfather) asked at the hand of the King who had become the thief, he said, “I do not know who he is.”
Then the Prince said, “If so, am I to tell you?” He said, “Hā.”
Then at the hand of that King who had become the thief, this Prince says, “You brought for yourself the Queen of such and such a city, did you not? Before bringing her there was an anger-wager, was there not?”
Then the King said, “It is true.”
Then the Prince said, “You will give punishment to the Queen, you said, did you not? Then the Queen said, did she not? ‘After I have borne a Prince to you, having tied you to the leg of the horse I will cause you to be struck fifty blows.’ ”
Then the King said, “It is true.”
“From there having brought the Queen, while you were giving her the punishment the Queen had previously reared two field rats. The two having come, dug [under] the brick wall, and the Queen went away from there.
“Having gone away, and been in a party of dancing women, while she was in it one day they came here, the Queen and those women, to dance. Having come and caused the Queen to stay, those women went away. After three or four months the women came back, and calling her, went away with her. While she was here,[5] I was born to you.”