The heads of the mother and the son would be brought to Peking and exposed on the Ch'ien Men for the mockery and insults of the people.

The frightened mother lifted her little son toward heaven and exclaimed: "'Earth and Gods of Mongolia, behold the offspring of the man who has glorified the name of the Mongols from one end of the world to the other! Allow not this very flesh of Jenghiz Khan to perish!' "At this moment she noticed a white mouse sitting on a rock nearby.

It jumped to her knees and said: "'I am sent to help you.

Go on calmly and do not fear.

The pursuers of you and your son, to whom is destined a life of glory, have come to the last bourne of their lives.' "Ta Sin Lo did not see how one small mouse could hold in check three hundred men.