So after dawn on the next day Princess Perizadah bade a gardener-lad accompany her and fared to the sire within the pleasure-gardens whereof the Speaking-Bird had told her.  Here the boy dug a hole both deep and wide when suddenly his spade struck upon somewhat hard, and he removed with his hands the earth and discovered to view a golden casket well nigh one foot square.  Hereupon the young gardener showed it to the Princess who explained, “I brought thee with me for this very reason.  Take heed and see that no harm come to it, but dig it out and bring it to me with all care.”  When the lad did her bidding she opened it forthright and found it filled with pearls and unions fresh from the sea, round as rings and all of one and the same size perfectly fitted for the purpose which the Speaking-Bird had proposed.  Perizadah rejoiced with extreme joy at the sight and taking up the box walked back with it to the house; and the Princes who had seen their sister faring forth betimes with the gardener-lad and had wondered why she went to the park thus early unaccording to her wonted custom, catching sight of her from the casement quickly donned their walking dresses and came to meet her.  And as the two brothers walked forwardes they saw the Princess approaching them with somewhat unusual under her arm, which when they met, proved to be a golden casket whereof they knew naught.  Quoth they, “O our sister at early light we espied thee going to the pleasure- grounds with a gardener-lad empty handed, but now thou bringest back this golden casket; so disclose to us where and how thou hast found it; and haply there may be some hoard close hidden in the parterre?” Perizadah replied, “Sooth ye say, O my brothers:  I took this lad with me and made him dig under a certain tree where we came upon this box of pearls, at the sight whereof methinks your hearts will be delighted.”  The Princess straightway opened the box and her brothers sighting the pearls and unions were amazed with extreme amazement and rejoiced greatly to see them.  Quoth the Princess, “Come now ye twain with me, for that I have in hand a weighty matter;” and quoth Prince Bahman, “What is there to do?  I pray thee tell us without delay for never yet hast thou kept aught of thy life from us.”  She made reply, “O my brothers, I have naught to hide from you, nor think ye any ill of me, for I am now about to tell you all the tale.”  Then she made known to them what advice the Speaking-Bird had given to her; and they, conning the matter over in this minds, marvelled much why her slave had bidden them set a dish of green cucumbers stuffed with pearls before the Shah, nor could they devise any reason for it.  Presently the Princess resumed, “The Speaking-Bird indeed is wise and ware; so methinks this counsel must be for our advantage; and at any rate it cannot be without some object and purpose.  It therefore behoveth us to do even as he hath commanded.”  Hereupon the Princess went to her own chamber and summoning the head cook said to him, “This day