"As Iván says so it shall be!"
But Iván said:
"All right, let him have it!"
So Semén the Warrior took his third from the house, transferred it to his estate, and again went away to serve the king.
Tarás the Paunch, too, earned much money,—and married a merchant woman. Still he did not have enough, and he came to his father, and said:
"Give me my part!"
The old man did not want to give Tarás his part:
"You," he said, "have brought nothing to the house, and everything in the house has been earned by Iván. I cannot be unfair to him and to the girl."
But Tarás said:
"What does he want it for? He is a fool. He cannot marry, for no one will have him; and the dumb girl does not need anything, either. Give me," he said, "half of the grain, Iván! I will not take your tools, and of your animals I want only the gray stallion,—you cannot plough with him."