As soon as the wolf and the mouse were gone, Truth came down from her tree, and groped about until she found a moss-covered stone, when she rubbed her eyes with the moss.  She recovered her sight immediately, and then went her way till she came to the country where most of the people were blind.  Truth demanded that the blind people should pay her a fixed sum of money, when she would tell them of a remedy by which they could recover their sight.  The blind men gave her the money, and Truth supplied them with the remedy which had cured herself.

After this, Truth proceeded further till she came to the district where the people had no water.  She told them that if they would give her a carriage and horses, she would tell them where to find water.  The people were glad to agree to her proposal.

When Truth had received the carriage and horses, she showed the people the oak and the lime tree, which they felled by her directions, when water immediately flowed from under the roots in great abundance.

As Truth drove away she met Injustice, who had fallen into poverty, and was wandering from one country to another in rags.  Truth knew her immediately, and asked her to take a seat in her carriage.  Injustice then recognised her, and asked her how she had received the light of her eyes, and how she had come by such a fine carriage.  Truth told her everything, including what she had heard from the wolf and the mouse.  Injustice then persuaded her to put out her eyes, for she wanted to be rich, and to have a fine carriage too; and then Truth told her to descend.  Truth herself drove away, and seldom shows herself to men.

Injustice wandered about the country till she found the walnut tree, up which she climbed.  When evening came, the wolf and the fox met under the tree again to talk.  Both were now in trouble, for the wolf could not steal an animal without being seen and pursued by the people, and the mouse could no longer eat meat or collect stores without being disturbed, for the people were no longer obliged to leave their home for a long time to fetch water.  Both the wolf and the mouse suspected that some one had overheard their late conversation, so they looked up in search of the listener, and discovered Injustice in the tree.  The animals supposed that it was she who had betrayed them, and said in anger, “May our curse be upon you that you may remain for ever blind, for you have deprived us of our means of living.”

After thus speaking, the animals ran away, but Injustice has ever since remained blind, and does harm to everybody who chances to come in her way.

II.—­Notes on the stories contained in volume xv.

By W. F. Kirby.

History of the King’s Son of Sind and the Lady Fatimah
(pp. 1-13).

P. 3.—­This mixture of seeds, &c., is a very common incident in folk-tales.

P. 7.—­Compare the well-known incident in John xviii. 1-11, which passage, by the way, is considered to be an interpolation taken from the lost Gospel of the Hebrews.