“What business or what art will you learn?”
“Your majesty,” said he, “I do not wish to learn either handiwork or
art, but if my eldest brother will make me an axe, I will build a ship
in an instant.”
“Such a man do I want,” said the Czar. “You, too, have nothing to
learn.”
“And you,” said the Czar to the fourth Simeon, “what handiwork or what
art do you wish to learn?”
“Your majesty,” said he, “I do not wish to learn anything, but, when my
brother has finished his ship, and it is attacked by the enemy, I will
seize it by the prow, carry it to the underground kingdom, and, when the
enemy is gone, I will put it again on the sea.”