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Rh Nagarguna told the Prince how he should go to find the Siddhi-kur, of all the dangers he would meet by the way and how he should overcome them. And the Prince plied him with many questions and put away carefully in his mind all the directions and warnings that were given him. At length the master arose and, going into a dark recess of the cave, brought forth an axe, a sack, a cord and a basket. These he spread out before the Prince.

"In this basket," said he, handing it to the lad, "are the magic barley corns which you will use as I have directed you, and also a cake which grows not less, no matter how much you eat of it. The cake will keep you from hunger as the barley corns will keep you from fear." Then, picking up the axe, the sack and the cord, he continued, "When at length you have found the Siddhi-kur, do not fail to tell him that this is the magic axe 'White Moon,' that this sack is the marvelous sack of many colors, in which, though it appears so