"Good Pablo," continued the prince, "say no more, but return to your
shop, pack up your linen, and come here as soon as you can this evening.
If I am in bed when you arrive, you will know that it is because I must
get up to-morrow morning by five o'clock, and see to it that you let me
not sleep beyond that time."

Pablo hurried home, packed up his few articles of underclothing, and
then proceeded to the principal wine tavern to tell his friends of his
good fortune. They were all so pleased to hear of Pablo's good luck that
they drank to his health, and he returned the compliment so often that
at last the wine was beginning to tell on him, so he bid his friends
good-bye and left, saying to himself, "I must wake his highness at five
o'clock." This he kept repeating so often that he had arrived at the
large courtyard of the palace before he was aware of it.

The prince's bedroom looked into the courtyard, and Pablo saw by the dim
light that was burning in the room that the prince had retired to rest.

Afraid lest the prince should think he had forgotten all about awaking
him, and that he might therefore be keeping awake, Pablo seized a long
cane, with which he tapped at the window of the prince, and kept on
tapping until the prince appeared, and opened the window, shouting out--

"Who is there? Who wants me?"

"It is I," said Pablo. "I have not forgotten your orders; to-morrow
morning I will wake your highness at five."

"Very good, Pablo; but let me sleep awhile, or else I shall be tired
to-morrow."

As soon as the prince had disappeared Pablo commenced thinking over all
the princes of whom he had heard, and he had become so interested in the
subject that when he heard the cock crow, imagining it was daybreak, he
again seized the cane and tapped loudly at the window.

The prince again lifted up the sash, and cried out--

"Who is it? What do you want? Let me sleep, or else I shall be tired
to-morrow."

"Sir," exclaimed the barber, "the cock has already crowed, and it must
be time to rise."

"You are mistaken," replied the prince, "for it is only half an hour ago
since you woke me; but I am not annoyed with you."

Pablo was now sorely troubled in his mind because he thought he might
give offence to the prince, and so he kept revolving in his mind all
that his mother had told him about the anger of princes, and how much it
was to be dreaded. This thought so perplexed him that he resolved on
putting an end to