The porter then went to the other son and asked, "What is your condition?" "My condition is that I wander about in the forest and bring back some birds. I sell them in the city and hardly get any money to live." In those days there was a fashion among kings to keep a certain bird as a pet; that bird was called Shahbaz, the king's bird. The porter said, "You must not look for game birds, look for this bird Shahbaz." The boy replied, "But if I cannot find it, should I then rather starve and die?"