Then as they in their drinking bade him welcome in a friendly manner, he made a present to them also of another of the skins; and so at length having drunk liberally the guards became completely intoxicated; and being overcome by sleep they went to bed on the spot where they had been drinking. He then, as it was now far on in the night, first took down the body of his brother, and then in mockery shaved the right cheeks of all the guards; and after that he put the dead body upon the asses and drove them away home, having accomplished that which was enjoined him by his mother. (e) Upon this the king, when it was reported to him that the dead body of the thief had been stolen away, displayed great anger; and desiring by all means that it should be found out who it might be who devised these things, did this (so at least they said, but I do not believe the account)⁠—he caused his own daughter to sit in the stews, and enjoined her to receive all equally, and before having commerce with anyone to compel him to tell her what was the most cunning and what the most unholy deed which had been done by him in all his lifetime; and whosoever should relate that which had happened about the thief, him she must seize and not let him go out.