ed the rich man to give back the horse to
the poor one until his tail had grown again.

Then the merchant came up to complain of the death of his baby, and
the poor man again brandished his heavy towel before the judge, and
because he hoped for another bribe the judge said: "You must send your
wife to the poor man's house till she has another baby, and then you
will be as well off as before."

Then the son came and accused the poor man of having crushed his
father to death, and asked the judge for justice. The poor man took up
the stone again, and showed it as before to the judge, who fancied
that the man would perhaps give him for this charge another hundred
roubles. So he ordered the son to stand on the bridge while the poor
man passed under it; and that the son should in like manner leap down
upon the poor man and crush him.

So the poor brother came to the rich one to fetch the horse without a
tail, according to the judge's sentence, and to keep it until the tail
grew again. The rich man was very loth to give up the horse, and
instead, made him a present of five roubles, three bushels of corn,
and a milch goat, and thus they settled their quarrel.

So then the poor man went to the merchant to take his wife away from
him, and the merchant offered him fifty roubles, a cow with her calf,
a mare with her foal, and five measures of grain, which he willingly
accepted.

Then the poor man went to the son and said: "Come, the judge has said
that you must place yourself on the bridge while I stand under it, and
you must throw yourself down on me and kill me." Then the son thought
to himself: "Who knows but that, if I throw myself from the bridge, I
may, perhaps, instead of falling on this man, dash myself to pieces."
So he tried to make peace with the poor man, and gave him two hundred
roubles, a horse, and five measures of corn.

But the judge Shemyaka sent his servant to the poor man to ask for the
three hundred roubles. The poor man showed him the stone and said: "If
the judge had not decided in my favour I should have killed him." So
the servant went back to the judge and told him what the poor man had
said; whereat the judge, overjoyed, exclaimed: "Heaven be thanked that
I decided in this man's favour!"

STORY OF PRINCE PETER WITH THE GOLDEN KEYS, AND THE PRINCESS MAGILENE

In France there once lived a high-born Prince named Volchvan, with his
wife Petronida; and they had an only son named Peter. Now, Pr