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" - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/112/) — Your tutor has tricked me splendidly; but you sha'n't get off for nothing!" - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/113/) — Princess Anna the Fair lived for some time with Prince Ivan as a wife ought to live with a god-given\[320\] husband, flattered him in every way in words, but in reality never thought of anything except by what means she might get rid of Katoma. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/114/) — With the Prince, without the tutor, there'd be no difficulty in settling matters! she said to herself. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/115/) — But whatever slanders she might invent, Prince Ivan never would allow himself to be influenced by what she said, but always felt sorry for his tutor. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/116/) — At the end of a year he said to his wife one day-- - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/117/) — "Beauteous Princess, my beloved spouse! - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/118/) — I should like to go with you to my own kingdom." - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/119/) — "By all means," replied she, "let us go. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/120/) — I myself have long been wishing to see your kingdom." - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/121/) — Well they got ready and went off; Katoma was allotted the post of coachman. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/122/) — They drove and drove, and as they drove along Prince Ivan went to sleep. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/123/) — Suddenly the Princess Anna the Fair awoke him, uttering loud complaints-- - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/124/) — "Listen, Prince, you're always sleeping, you hear nothing! - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/125/) — But your tutor doesn't obey me a bit, drives the horses on purpose over hill and dale, just as if he wanted to put an end to us both. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/126/) — I tried speaking him fair, but he jeered at me. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/127/) — I won't go on living any longer if you don't punish him!" - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/128/) — Prince Ivan, 'twixt sleeping and waking, waxed very wroth with his tutor, and handed him over entirely to the Princess, saying-- - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/129/) — "Deal with him as you please!" - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/130/) — The Princess ordered his feet to be cut off. - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/131/) — Katoma submitted patiently to the outrage. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/132/) — "Very good," he thinks; "I shall suffer, it's true; but the Prince also will know what to lead a wretched life is like!" - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/133/) — When both of Katoma's feet had been cut off, the Princess glanced around, and saw that a tall tree-stump stood on one side; so she called her servants and ordered them to set him on that stump. - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/134/) — But as for Prince Ivan, she tied him to the carriage by a cord, turned the horses round, and drove back to her own kingdom. - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/135/) — Katoma was left sitting on the stump, weeping bitter tears. - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/136/) — "Farewell, Prince Ivan!" he cries; "you won't forget me!" - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/137/) — Meanwhile Prince Ivan was running and bounding behind the carriage. - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/138/) — He knew well enough by this time what a blunder he had made, but there was no turning back for him. - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/139/) — When the Princess Anna the Fair arrived in her kingdom, she set Prince Ivan to take care of the cows. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/140/) — Every day he went afield with the herd at early morn, and in the evening he drove them back to the royal yard. - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/141/) — At that hour the Princess was always sitting on the balcony, and looking out to see that the number of the cows were all right. - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/142/) — \[321\] - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/143/) — Katoma remained sitting on the stump one day, two days, three days, without anything to eat or drink. - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/144/) — To get down was utterly impossible, it seemed as if he must die of starvation. - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/145/) — But not far away from that place there was a dense forest. - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/146/) — In that forest was living a mighty hero who was quite blind. - [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/147/) — The only way by which he could get himself food was this: whenever he perceived by the sense of smell that any animal was running past him, whether a hare, or a fox, or a bear, he immediately started in chase of it, caught it--and dinner was ready for him. - [148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/148/) — The hero was exceedingly swift-footed, and there was not a single wild beast which could run away from him. - [149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/149/) — Well, one day it fell out thus. - [150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/150/) — A fox slunk past; the hero heard it, and was after it directly. - [151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/151/) — It ran up to the tall stump, and turned sharp off on one-side; but the blind hero hurried on, took a spring, and thumped his forehead against the stump so hard that he knocked the stump out by the roots. - [152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/152/) — Katoma fell to the ground, and asked: [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/) **2** - ← previous: [Magic and Witchcraft., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/) - next →: [Magic and Witchcraft., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/44/) - ↑ back to [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/)