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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/101/) — But it was all no use; he couldn't help being miserable. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/102/) — He longed so to know what was going on at home. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/103/) — He often went to the top of a high mountain, and thence gazed at the palace in which he used to live, and he could see that it was all eaten away; nothing but the bare walls remained! - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/104/) — Then he would sigh and weep. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/105/) — Once when he returned after he had been thus looking and crying, the Sun's Sister asked him: - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/106/) — "What makes your eyes so red to-day, Prince Ivan?" - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/107/) — \[219\] - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/108/) — "The wind has been blowing in them," said he. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/109/) — The same thing happened a second time. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/110/) — Then the Sun's Sister ordered the wind to stop blowing. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/111/) — Again a third time did Prince Ivan come back with a blubbered face. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/112/) — This time there was no help for it; he had to confess everything, and then he took to entreating the Sun's Sister to let him go, that he might satisfy himself about his old home. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/113/) — She would not let him go, but he went on urgently entreating. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/114/) — So at last he persuaded her, and she let him go away to find out about his home. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/115/) — But first she provided him for the journey with a brush, a comb, and two youth-giving apples. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/116/) — However old any one might be, let him eat one of these apples, he would grow young again in an instant. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/117/) — Well, Prince Ivan came to where Vertogor was. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/118/) — There was only just one mountain left! - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/119/) — He took his brush and cast it down on the open plain. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/120/) — Immediately there rose out of the earth, goodness knows whence,\[220\] high, ever so high mountains, their peaks touching the sky. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/121/) — And the number of them was such that there were more than the eye could see! - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/122/) — \[221\] Vertogor rejoiced greatly and blithely recommenced his work. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/123/) — After a time Prince Ivan came to where Vertodub was, and found that there were only three trees remaining there. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/124/) — So he took the comb and flung it on the open plain. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/125/) — Immediately from somewhere or other there came a sound of trees,\[222\] and forth from the ground arose dense oak forests! each stem more huge than the other! - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/126/) — Vertodub was delighted, thanked the Prince, and set to work uprooting the ancient oaks. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/127/) — By-and-by Prince Ivan reached the old women, and gave each of them an apple. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/128/) — They ate them, and straightway became young again. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/129/) — So they gave him a handkerchief; you only had to wave it, and behind you lay a whole lake! - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/130/) — At last Prince Ivan arrived at home. - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/131/) — Out came running his sister to meet him, caressed him fondly. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/132/) — "Sit thee down, my brother!" she said, "play a tune on the lute while I go and get dinner ready." - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/133/) — The Prince sat down and strummed away on the lute \[\_gusli\_\]. - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/134/) — Then there crept a mouse out of a hole, and said to him in a human voice: - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/135/) — "Save yourself, Prince. - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/136/) — Run away quick! your sister has gone to sharpen her teeth." - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/137/) — Prince Ivan fled from the room, jumped on his horse, and galloped away back. - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/138/) — Meantime the mouse kept running over the strings of the lute. - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/139/) — They twanged, and the sister never guessed that her brother was off. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/140/) — When she had sharpened her teeth she burst into the room. - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/141/) — Lo and behold! not a soul was there, nothing but the mouse bolting into its hole! - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/142/) — The witch waxed wroth, ground her teeth like anything, and set off in pursuit. - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/143/) — Prince Ivan heard a loud noise and looked back. - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/144/) — There was his sister chasing him. - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/145/) — So he waved his handkerchief, and a deep lake lay behind him. - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/146/) — While the witch was swimming across the water, Prince Ivan got a long way ahead. - [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/147/) — But on she came faster than ever; and now she was close at hand! - [148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/148/) — Vertodub guessed that the Prince was trying to escape from his sister. - [149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/149/) — So he began tearing up oaks and strewing them across the road. - [150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/150/) — A regular mountain did he pile up! there was no passing by for the witch! - [151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/151/) — So she set to work to clear the way. - [152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/152/) — She gnawed, and gnawed, and at length contrived by hard work to bore her way through; but by this time Prince Ivan was far ahead. 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