"Yes, thou hast done the work well. But now, see that thou doest my second task."
Then she gave him her second command:
"Dig up that mountain yonder and let the Dnieper flow past the site of it, and there build a storehouse, and in the storehouse stack the wheat that thou hast reaped, and sell this wheat to the merchant barques that sail by, and everything must be done by the time I get up early next morning!"
Then he again went to the fence and wept, and the maiden said to him:
"Why dost thou weep?" and he told her all that the she dragon had bidden him do.
"There are lots of bushes, but where are the berries? Go and lie down, and I'll do it all for thee."
Then she whistled, and the mountain was leveled and the Dnieper flowed over the site of it, and round about the Dnieper, storehouses rose up, and then she came and woke him that he might go and sell the wheat to the merchant barques that sailed by that way, and when the she dragon rose up early in the morning she was amazed to see that everything had been done which she had commanded him.
Then she gave him her third command:
"This night thou must catch the golden hare, and bring it to me by the morning light."
Again he went to the fence and fell a-weeping. And the girl asked him: