A Common World Literature Mistake You Are Probably Making Now With Russian Fairy Tales Part 2

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He called his sons and said to them:

“My dear boys, I would have you saddle your trusty steeds and set out to see the wide world. Perhaps you will come upon the Fire-Bird.”

The sons bowed to their father, saddled their trusty steeds and set out. The eldest son took one road, the middle son another, and Prince Ivan a third.

How long Prince Ivan travelled is hard to say, but one hot afternoon he felt so tired that he got off his horse and lay down to rest.

Nobody knows whether he slept for a long time or a short time, but when he woke up his horse was gone. So he went to look for it. He walked and walked, and at last he found the remains of his horse: nothing but bones, picked clean.

Prince Ivan was in great distress. How could he continue on his journey without a horse?

“Ah, well,” he thought, “I must make the best of it.”

And he went on foot. He walked and walked till he was dead tired, when he sat down on the soft grass, sad and dispirited. Suddenly, there’s no telling how, up came running a Grey Wolf.

“Why are you sitting here so sad and forlorn, Prince Ivan?” asked Grey Wolf.

“How can I help being sad, Grey Wolf? I have lost my trusty steed.”

“It was I who ate up your horse, Prince Ivan. But I am sorry for you. What are you doing so far from home and where are you going?”

“Father has sent me out into the wide world to seek the Fire-Bird.”

“But you could not reach the Fire-Bird on that horse in three years. I alone know where it lives. So be it—since I have eaten up your horse, I shall be your true and faithful servant. Get on my back and hold fast.”

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