Have patience , and you will see . Next to his daughter , Balancin loved hunting , and it was his custom to spend several mornings every week chasing the boars which abounded in the mountains a few miles from the city . One day , rushing downhill as fast as he could go , he put his foot into a hole and fell , rolling into a rocky pit of brambles . The king 's wounds were not very severe , but his face and hands were cut and torn , while his feet were in a worse plight still , for , instead of proper hunting boots , he only wore sandals , to enable him to run more swiftly . In a few days the king was as well as ever , and the signs of the scratches were almost gone ; but one foot still remained very sore , where a thorn had pierced deeply and had festered . The best doctors in the kingdom treated it with all their skill ; they bathed , and poulticed , and bandaged , but it was in vain . The foot only grew worse and worse , and became daily more swollen and painful . After everyone had tried his own particular cure , and found it fail , there came news of a wonderful doctor in some distant land who had healed the most astonishing diseases . On inquiring , it was found that he never left the walls of his own city , and expected his patients to come to see him ; but , by dint of offering a large sum of money , the king persuaded the famous physician to undertake the journey to his own court . On his arrival the doctor was led at once into the king 's presence , and made a careful examination of his foot . ` Alas ! your majesty , ' he said , when he had finished , ` the wound is beyond the power of man to heal ; but though I can not cure it , I can at least deaden the pain , and enable you to walk without so much suffering . ' ` Oh , if you can only do that , ' cried the king , ' I shall be grateful to you for life ! Give your own orders ; they shall be obeyed . ' ` Then let your majesty bid the royal shoemaker make you a shoe of goat-skin very loose and comfortable , while I prepare a varnish to paint over it of which I alone have the secret ! ' So saying , the doctor bowed himself out , leaving the king more cheerful and hopeful than he had been for long . The days passed very slowly with him during the making of the shoe and the preparation of the varnish , but on the eighth morning the physician appeared , bringing with him the shoe in a case . He drew it out to slip on the king 's foot , and over the goat-skin he had rubbed a polish so white that the snow itself was not more dazzling . ` While you wear this shoe you will not feel the slightest pain , ' said the doctor . ` For the balsam with which I have rubbed it inside and out has , besides its healing balm , the quality of strengthening the material it touches , so that , even were your majesty to live a thousand years , you would find the slipper just as fresh at the end of that time as it is now . '
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