ON THE ROAD Naturally when, after an uneventful journey with the shepherd as guide, they reached Prince Askurry's camp that evening, they came to talk over the incident.

Foster-father was not sparing of Head-nurse.

The whole tissue of misfortunes, which had ended in Baby Akbar so nearly losing his life--and that he had been spared was simply a miracle--arose from her insisting on a Royal Procession.

But for that, both she and the child would have gone comfortably on a camel.

They would have kept up with the other baggage animals and none of the distressful events would have happened.