All were astonished, and cried: "Stop him, hold him! Who is he?"

But his trace was cold. He rode out to the field, crept into one ear

and out of the other, became just such a simpleton as before, came

home, tied a rag around his forehead, pretended that his head was

aching, and lay down on the stove.

His brothers returned and said: "Oh, father, there was a hero, such a

hero! At once he broke all twelve windows and kissed the Tsarevna."

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