Atondido Stories
shepherd were really with his sheep. She found Yan asleep and,
when she saw her kerchief bound about his foot, she knew that
he was the prince.
She woke him up and cried:
"You are he! You know you are!"
Yan looked at her and laughed and he asked:
"How can I be a prince?"
"But I know you are!" the princess said. "Oh, Yanitchko, dear
Yanitchko, I beg you please to tell me!"
So then Yan, because he always did anything the princess
asked him when she said: "Please," told her his true name and
his rank.
The princess, overjoyed to hear that her dear shepherd was
really a prince, carried him off to her father, the king.
"This is the man I shall marry," she said, "this and none oth-
er."
So Yan and the merry little princess were married and lived
very happily. And the people of the country when they speak of
the princess always say:
"That's a princess for you! Why, even if she is a princess, she
always says 'Please' to her own husband!"
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