Iván scratched himself.
"I declare," he said, "it is a nasty thing! It is again he. He must be the father of those others. What a big fellow he is!"
Iván is still living, and people are all the time rushing to his kingdom, and his brothers, too, came to him, and he is feeding them all. If any one comes and says: "Feed me!" he replies:
"All right, stay here, we have plenty of everything."
They have but one custom in his country, and that is, if one has calluses on his hands, he may sit down at the table, and if he has not, he gets the remnants.
Transcriber's note:
On [page 133], the original read: "The Tartars after him. He into the river."
This has been changed to "The Tartars after him. He threw himself into the river."