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Yanitchko, dear Yanitchko, I beg you please to tell me!”

So then Yan, because he always did anything the princess asked him when she said: “Please,” told her his true name and his rank.

The princess, overjoyed to hear that her dear shepherd was really a prince, carried him off to her father, the king.

“This is the man I shall marry,” she said, “this and none other.”

So Yan and the merry little princess were married and lived very happily. And the people of the country when they speak of the princess always say:

“That’s a princess for you! Why, even if she is a princess, she always says ‘Please’ to her own husband!”