The robbers , also , were not very well pleased at this , for they were forced to own that the youth was at the head of them all . So one day they made up their minds to set to work to do something which it was not in his power to accomplish , and they all took to the road together , and left him at home alone . When they were well out of the house , the first thing that he did was to drive the oxen out on the road , whereupon they all ran home again to the man from whom he had stolen them , and right glad was the husbandman to see them . Then he brought out all the horses the robbers had , and loaded them with the most valuable things which he could find -- vessels of gold and of silver , and clothes and other magnificent things -- and then he told the old woman to greet the robbers from him and thank them from him , and say that he had gone away , and that they would have a great deal of difficulty in finding him again , and with that he drove the horses out of the courtyard . After a long , long time he came to the road on which he was travelling when he came to the robbers . And when he had got very near home , and was in sight of the house where his father lived , he put on a uniform which he had found among the things he had taken from the robbers , and which was made just like a general 's , and drove into the yard just as if he were a great man . Then he entered the house and asked if he could find a lodging there . ` No , indeed you ca n't ! ' said his father . ` How could I possibly be able to lodge such a great gentleman as you ? It is all that I can do to find clothes and bedding for myself , and wretched they are . ' ` You were always a hard man , ' said the youth , ` and hard you are still if you refuse to let your own son come into your house . ' ` Are you my son ? ' said the man . ` Do you not know me again then ? ' said the youth . Then he recognised him and said , ` But what trade have you taken to that has made you such a great man in so short a time ? ' ` Oh , that I will tell you , ' answered the youth . ` You said that I might take to anything I liked , so I apprenticed myself to some thieves and robbers , and now I have served my time and have become Master Thief . ' Now the Governor of the province lived by his father 's cottage , and this Governor had such a large house and so much money that he did not even know how much it was , and he had a daughter too who was both pretty and dainty , and good and wise .
So the Master Thief was determined to have her to wife , and XXXXX his father that he was to go to the Governor , and ask for his daughter for him .
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