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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/26789-0.txt b/26789-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62433e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/26789-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1015 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Emelian the Fool, Edited by Thomas J. Wise, +Translated by George Borrow + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Emelian the Fool + a tale + + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 6, 2008 [eBook #26789] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EMELIAN THE FOOL*** + + +Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org + + + + + + EMELIAN THE FOOL + A TALE + + + _Translated from the Russian_ + BY + GEORGE BORROW + + LONDON: + PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION + + 1913 + + + + +INTRODUCTION + + +The tale of _Emelian_, of which we give here a version, is highly popular +amongst the peasantry of Russia, and is told by them at their +merry-makings from the upper shores of the Gulf of Finland to the Ural +Mountains. It bears some resemblance to the tale of _Aladdin_, the pike +playing in the Russian story much the same part as the lamp in the +Arabian one, and it is by no means impossible that both tales are derived +from the same myth. But from whatever source the story of _Emelian_ may +have sprung, the manner in which it is wrought is essentially Russian, +and from it, as here rendered, the English reader may form a better idea +of the way of life, and the feelings of the Russian mujiks, or peasantry, +than from a dozen common books of travels in Russia. Emelian is +represented as a fool, but there is much in what he says and does common +to the Russian mujik in general. He lies in the izbushka, or cabin, upon +the petsch, or stove, and when told to get up, he says: “What should I +get up for?—Mnie zdies teplo, i ia lieniós—’tis warm here, and I am +lazy.” There spoke the genuine mujik, the most prominent features of +whose character are a love of warmth and a hatred of exertion, though, +when he chooses to get up and rouse himself, he is capable of very great +things, can outwit the tchort himself, bear hunger and fatigue better +than any other man, and contend even with the Briton at the game of the +bayonet. Perhaps we may hereafter present to the public in an English +dress some other popular tales illustrative of the manner of life and +ideas of the mujiks, to whom the attention of the English public has of +late been much directed, owing to the ukase of the present Tsar, by which +they are emancipated from serfdom,—a measure likely to be productive of +much weal or woe throughout his extensive dominions. + +The tale is as follows:— + + + + +EMELIAN THE FOOL + + +In a certain village there lived a mujik, or yeoman, who had three sons; +two were clever, but the third was a fool, who was called Emelian. When +the good man had reached an extreme old age, he called all his sons to +him, and said: + +“Dear children, I feel that I have not long to live; I therefore leave +you house and cattle, which you will divide in equal portions. I also +leave you money: a hundred roubles for each.” + +Soon after these words he died, and his children, having given him a +decent funeral, lived very comfortably. After a little time, the +brothers of Emelian took it into their heads to start for the city, and +employ in traffic the three hundred roubles which their father had left +them; so they said to the fool Emelian: + +“Harkee, fool, we are going to the city, and will take your hundred +roubles with us, and if our traffic goes on profitably we will buy you a +red caftan, a red cap, and red boots; but do you remain at home, and if +your sisters-in-law, our wives (for they were married) order you to do +anything, be sure you do it.” + +The fool, wishing to receive the red caftan, red cap, and red boots, told +his brothers in reply that he would do whatever his sisters-in-law should +order him. After this, his brothers set out for the city, and the fool +remained at home, and lived with his sisters-in-law. After some time, on +a certain day, when it was winter, and there was a terrible frost, his +sisters-in-law told him to go for water; but the fool, who was lying on +the petsch, or stove, said: + +“Yes, indeed, and why not you?” + +“Why not we, you fool?” cried the sisters-in-law; “don’t you see what a +frost it is? and that none but a man can go out in such weather?” + +“But,” said he, “I am lazy.” + +“Lazy?” screamed his sisters-in-law; “won’t you presently want something +to eat? And if there be no water how can we boil anything?” Thereupon +they added, “Very well, when our husbands come home with the red caftan +and cap they promised him, we will tell them to give him nothing.” + +When the fool heard this he thought it best to go, for he wished very +much to get the red caftan and cap. So getting down from the petsch he +began to put on his stockings and boots, and to dress himself; and when +he was quite dressed, he took with him a couple of pails and a hatchet, +and went to the river: for the village in which they lived stood very +near the river. When he had come to the stream, he began to hew away at +the ice, and when he had made a very big hole, he filled his pails with +water, and placing them on the ice, he stood beside the hole, and looked. +Now as the fool stood and looked he saw a very large pike swimming in the +hole. Fool as Emelian was, he nevertheless wished to catch the pike. He +therefore advanced softly, and coming near to it, seized it suddenly with +his hand, and pulling it out of the water, placed it in his bosom, and +began to make for home. But the pike said to him: + +“How’s this, fool? for what do you seize me?” + +“For what?” said he; “I shall carry you home, and tell my sisters-in-law +to boil you.” + +“Not so, fool, don’t carry me home, but put me back into the water, and I +will make you a rich man.” + +But the fool did not believe him, and was making for home. The pike, +seeing that the fool did not let him go, said: + +“Listen, fool, do but put me into the water, and I will do for you +whatsoever you wish, so that every desire of your heart shall be +fulfilled.” + +The fool, hearing these words, was very glad; for, as he was excessively +lazy, he thought to himself— + +“If the pike does whatever I ask all will be got ready for me, and I +shall have no need to work.” + +He therefore said to the pike: + +“I will let you go, only do what you promise.” + +Thereupon the pike made answer: + +“First place me in the water, and I will fulfil my promise.” + +But the fool said to him that he must first of all perform his promise, +and that he would then let him go. + +The pike, seeing that he would not put him into the water, said: + +“If you wish me to do for you what you want, you must now tell me what it +is that you desire.” + +The fool said: + +“I desire that my pails of water should march of themselves up the hill” +(for the village stood upon a hill), “but so that none of the water be +spilt out of them.” + +The pike immediately said to him: + +“Remember, Emelian, the words which I am about to say to you, and the +words are as follows: ‘At the pike’s behest, and at my request, march, +pails, by yourselves up the hill.’” + +The fool repeated the words after the pike: + +“At the pike’s behest, and at my request march, pails, by yourselves up +the hill.” + +Forthwith the pails, and the yoke by which he was wont to carry them, +marched of themselves up the hill. Emelian, seeing this, was very much +surprised, and said to the pike: + +“Will it always be so?” + +To which the pike made answer: + +“All things you wish will be done, even as this has been done: only don’t +forget the words which I have taught you.” + +Thereupon he released the pike into the water, and went himself after his +pails. The neighbours, seeing what was going on, were filled with +wonder, and said, amongst, themselves— + +“What is the fool about? The pails of water walk of themselves, and he +walks after them.” + +But Emelian, without saying anything to them, went home, and the pails +went of themselves into the keeping-room, and placed themselves on the +bench, while the fool mounted upon the petsch. A little time after, his +sisters-in-law said to him again: + +“Emelian, what do you lie there for? go and cut some wood.” + +But the fool said: + +“Yes, indeed, and why not you?” + +“We?” screamed his sisters-in-law; “it is now winter, and if you do not +go and cut some wood you will soon be cold.” + +“I am lazy,” said the fool. + +“Lazy?” said his sisters-in-law to him, “then you will be frozen.” + +Thereupon they added: + +“If you don’t go and cut wood we will tell our husbands not to give you +the red caftan, nor the red cap, nor the boots.” + +The fool, from the desire which he felt to obtain the red caftan, cap, +and boots, was obliged to comply with their request. But as he was +thoroughly lazy, and did not wish to get down from the petsch, he said +these words softly as he lay: + +“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, go, hatchet, now, and cut down +wood; and do you, wood, come of yourself to the room, and stow yourself +within the stove.” + +Forthwith, the hatchet, without anyone taking it, hopped forth, and began +to cut away, and the wood of itself came into the room, and stowed itself +in the stove, at the sight of which the sisters-in-law wondered much at +the craft of Emelian; and every day, when the fool only ordered the +hatchet to go out and cut wood, the hatchet went and cut some. And in +this manner he lived with his sisters-in-law for some time. At length, +his sisters-in-law said to him: + +“Emelian! we have no wood, so pray go out into the forest and cut some.” + +The fool said: “Why don’t you go yourselves?” + +“How should we go?” replied his sisters-in-law; “the forest is a great +way off, and as it is now winter, it is too cold for us to go to the +forest for wood.” + +But the fool said to them: + +“I am lazy.” + +“Lazy!” cried his sisters-in-law; “if you don’t go you will soon be cold. +But if you refuse to go, when your brothers, our husbands, come home we +will order them to give you neither red caftan, red cap, nor red boots.” + +The fool, wishing to obtain the red caftan, cap and boots, felt obliged +to go to the forest for wood, and getting up from the petsch, he began to +put on his stockings and boots, and to dress himself; and when he was +quite dressed he went out into the court, and drawing the sledge out of +the shed, and taking with him a rope and hatchet, he mounted the sledge, +and bade his sisters-in-law open the gate. The sisters-in-law, seeing +that he got into the sledge without putting the horses to it, for the +fool did not lead out the horses, said to him: + +“How is this, Emelian? you have got into the sledge without putting the +horses to it.” + +But he said to them that he had no need of horses, and only wanted them +to open the gate. The sisters-in-law did so, and the fool as he sat in +the sledge, said: + +“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, set forward, sledge, to the +forest.” + +At these words the sledge forthwith went forth. The country people +living around were quite astounded to see Emelian riding in the sledge +without horses, and going with such speed that, even if the best pair of +horses in the world had been fastened to the sledge, it would have been +impossible to go quicker. Now as it was necessary for the fool, in order +to reach the forest, to go through the town, he drove through it at full +speed; but as he did not know that it was necessary for him to cry out, +in order that the people might not be run over, he drove through the city +without crying to the people to get out of the way, and ran over a great +number of them, and although they gave chase to him, yet it was +impossible to overtake him. Emelian, having passed through the city and +reached the wood, stopped the sledge. The fool then getting out of the +sledge, said: + +“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, fall, hatchet, now to cutting +wood; and do you, wood, gather yourself into the sledge and be corded.” + +Scarcely had the fool said these words when the hatchet began to cut +wood, and the wood, gathering itself up, placed itself in the sledge, and +tied itself with the cord. After he had cut as much wood as he wanted, +he ordered the hatchet to cut down a small oak; and when the hatchet had +done so, he placed himself upon the load, and said: + +“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, O sledge, now travel home.” + +The sledge instantly set off very briskly. But when Emelian arrived at +the city in which he had run over so many people, the folks were waiting +for him in order to seize him, and as soon as he drove into the city they +set about dragging him off the load and began to belabour him. The fool, +seeing that they were pulling him and beating him, said these words, in +an undertone: + +“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, now, sapling, break their arms +and legs.” + +Forthwith the sapling, springing out, began to beat them in a pretty +manner, and the people taking to flight, the fool drove out of the town +to his own village, whilst the sapling drubbed all soundly, and went in +pursuit of them. Emelian, on reaching his home, mounted upon the petsch. + +In the meantime, after he had driven out of the city, there was much talk +of him everywhere,—not because he had driven over a number of people, but +because he had come driving to the city on a sledge without horses; and +by degrees the news reached the court, and came to the ears of the king +himself. The king, on hearing the story, felt no little desire to see +the fool, and sent an officer with some soldiers to seek him. The +officer proceeded without delay out of the city, taking the road by which +the fool had travelled in order to go to the forest. On arriving at the +village where Emelian lived, the officer sent for the starost, or head +man of the village, and said to him: + +“I am sent by the king to take your fool, and convey him to his +presence.” + +The starost immediately showed him the house where Emelian lived, and the +officer, going into the kitchen, demanded— + +“Where’s the fool?” + +The fool, who was lying on the petsch, answered— + +“What’s that to you?” + +“What’s that to me? Dress yourself quickly that I may carry you to the +presence of the king.” + +Quoth Emelian: + +“What have I to do there?” + +The officer, enraged at his answering so disrespectfully, struck him on +the cheek. The fool, feeling himself struck, said softly: + +“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, oak sapling, break their hands +and shins.” + +The sapling hopping forth, began to beat them, drubbing them all +preciously, both officer and soldiers, so that the officer was obliged to +return discomfited. Arriving at the city, he related to the king how the +fool had beaten them all. The king was very much astonished, and did not +believe it possible that he could have beaten so many. The king, +however, selected a prudent man, whom he sent with an injunction to bring +the fool to him if possible, even though he should have recourse to +deceit. The king’s envoy, arriving at the village where Emelian lived, +sent for the starost, and said to him: + +“I am sent by the king to fetch your fool; but first of all, bring before +me the people with whom he lives.” + +The starost instantly ran and brought the sisters-in-law; and the envoy +asked them— + +“What does the fool like?” + +The sisters-in-law replied: + +“Gracious, sir, our fool likes to be intreated to do a thing; he refuses +once and twice in order to be entreated a third time, when he never +refuses, but does all that he is asked,—but he does not like to be spoken +to roughly.” + +The envoy then dismissed them, warning them not to tell Emelian that he +had sent for them. After that, having bought some raisins, prunes, and +dried figs, he proceeded to the house of the fool, and on his arrival he +went up to the petsch, and said: + +“How’s this, Emelian, why are you lying on the petsch?” + +Then, giving him the raisins, prunes, and dried figs, he said: + +“Come, Emelian, I will carry you to the king.” + +But the fool answered: + +“I am warm here,” for he loved nothing but warmth. + +“Let us go, Emelian,” said the envoy, “you will be quite comfortable +there.” + +“Aye,” said the fool, “but I am lazy.” + +Thereupon the envoy began to beseech him once more. + +“Pray let us go, Emelian, the king has ordered a red caftan to be made +for you, and also a red cap, and red boots.” + +The fool, hearing that a red caftan had been ordered to be made for him, +provided he went, said: “Do you go before, and I will follow.” + +The envoy, not wishing to trouble him any more, left him, and asked +privately of the sisters-in-law whether the fool would not deceive him; +but they assured him that he never deceived anybody. The envoy then set +forth on his return, and the fool, placing himself once more on the +petsch, said: + +“O how I wish that I had not to go to court, but was there already.” + +Thereupon he said: + +“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, move straight, O petsch, to the +city.” + +Thereupon the walls of the room gave a crack, and the petsch sallied +forth, and when the petsch was clear of the house it drove along with +such rapidity that it was impossible to overtake it. On the road it +overtook the envoy, and drove in his company to the court. The king, +being told that the fool had arrived, went out to look at him, with all +his ministers, and seeing that Emelian came on the petsch, he was filled +with wonder. As for the fool, he lay still, and said nothing. After a +little time the king asked him why he had run over so many people when he +went to the forest for wood. + +“How could I help it?” said Emelian; “why did they not get out of my +way?” + +Just then, the king’s daughter came to a window, and looked at the fool. +Emelian, chancing to turn his eye to the window from which she was +looking, and seeing that she was very handsome, said in an undertone: + +“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, may yon beauty fall in love +with me.” + +No sooner had he pronounced these words than the daughter of the king +fell in love with him as she gazed upon him. And the fool, after that, +said: + +“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, move back, petsch, to our own +house.” + +The petsch, without a moment’s delay, marched out of the court, drove +through the city, and made for home, where, on arriving, it resumed its +former place. + +After that Emelian lived for some time quite at his ease; but the king, +in the city, fared very differently, for the princess, having fallen in +love with the fool at the words which he had uttered, began to beg of her +father to give her the fool for a husband. The king was very much +incensed both against her and the fool, and wished very much to lay +violent hands on the latter, but did not know how. Thereupon the king’s +ministers proposed that the officer who had before gone for Emelian, and +had failed to bring him, should be sent again for him on account of his +former failure. The king, approving of their counsel, summoned the +officer to his presence, and when he appeared before him, the king said: + +“Listen, friend, I sent thee for the fool before: but thou didst not +bring him; now for that offence I will send thee a second time, and in +order that thou mayest bring him without fail, I tell thee that if thou +dost bring him thou shalt be rewarded, and if thou dost not thou shalt be +punished.” + +The officer, on hearing the words of the king departed without delay in +quest of the fool, and having arrived at the village, he sent again for +the starost, and said to him: + +“Here is money for you, buy all that is necessary for a good dinner +to-morrow, invite Emelian, and when he is dining with you ply him with +drink until he falls under the table.” + +The starost, knowing that he was sent by the king, did not dare to +disobey him, but purchased all that was necessary, and invited the fool. +Emelian having promised to come, the officer expected him with great joy; +and the fool coming the next day, they plied him so hard with drink that +Emelian lay down and fell dead asleep. The officer, seeing that he was +asleep, immediately ordered his kabitka to be got ready, and to draw up +to the door, and when it drew up they placed the fool in it. After that +the officer got into the kabitka, and carried him straight to the court. +The ministers forthwith gave information to the king of the arrival of +the officer, and the king no sooner heard of it than he gave orders for a +great barrel to be well fenced with iron hoops, which was forthwith done, +and the barrel was brought to the king, who, seeing that all was ready, +ordered his daughter and the fool to be placed in the barrel, and the +barrel to be covered with pitch. No sooner had this been done than he +commanded the barrel to be cast into the sea, and was forthwith obeyed. +The king then returned to his palace, and the barrel, abandoned to its +fate, floated about for some hours. The fool all this time was asleep; +awaking, however, at last, and perceiving that he was in darkness, he +asked of himself—“Where am I?” for he imagined that he was alone. + +“You are in a barrel, Emelian,” said the princess; “and they have placed +me with you.” + +“And who are you?” asked the fool. + +“I am the king’s daughter,” she replied; and then she related on what +account she had been placed in the barrel with him. + +Thereupon she begged him to deliver himself and her from the barrel. But +the fool made no other reply than— + +“I am warm enough here.” + +“Pray have mercy upon me,” said the princess. “Take compassion on my +tears, and deliver me out of this barrel.” + +“I’ll do no such thing,” said Emelian, “I am lazy.” + +The princess began again to beseech him: + +“Have mercy upon me, Emelian; save me out of this barrel, and do not let +me die.” + +The fool, being moved by her entreaties and tears, said to her: + +“Very well, I will do this one thing for you.” After that, he said +softly to himself: “At the pike’s behest, and at my request, cast up, O +sea, this barrel, in which we lie, on some dry place, as near as possible +to our own country; and do thou, barrel on coming to dry ground, go to +pieces of thyself.” + +Scarcely had the fool uttered these words when the sea began to heave, +and forthwith cast the barrel on dry ground, whereupon the barrel went to +pieces of itself. Emelian arose, and went with the princess farther up +the land on which they were cast, and the fool perceived that they were +upon a very beautiful island, on which were a great number of trees of +different kinds, and with all kinds of fruits; and the princess, seeing +these things, was very much rejoiced that they were upon so beautiful an +island. In a little time, however, she said: + +“But Emelian, where are we to live, for here I don’t see a hut or any +kind of shelter?” + +But the fool said: + +“You are already hankering for something more.” + +“Do be so kind, Emelian, as to order some kind of house to be built,” +said the princess, “in order that we may have some place to take shelter +in when it rains;” for by this time the princess knew that he could do +anything if he did but please. + +But the fool said: + +“I am lazy.” + +Whereupon she began to beseech him again, and Emelian, touched by her +entreaties, was obliged to do what she desired; and going a little way +apart from her, said: + +“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, may there be erected, in the +midst of this island, a palace which shall be twice better than the +king’s; and may there be from the palace a crystal bridge to cross the +water by; and may there be in the palace all kinds of servants.” + +Scarcely had he pronounced these words when an enormous palace with a +crystal bridge made its appearance. The fool and the princess, entering +the palace, perceived that there was plenty of magnificent furniture in +the rooms, and that there were numbers of people, both lackeys and +officers, of various descriptions, who were awaiting the commands of the +fool. The fool, seeing that all these people had a decent and honourable +appearance, and that he alone was a lout, wished to be made better, and +therefore said: + +“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, be I now made a youth so +handsome as to have no equal, and possest of the very best of +understandings.” + +These words were scarcely uttered when he became so handsome and +intelligent that everybody wondered. After this, Emelian sent one of his +servants to the king, to invite him and all his ministers to the palace. +The messenger of Emelian rode to the king over that same crystal bridge +which the fool had built. On his arrival at court the ministers +presented him to the king, whom the messenger addressed in this manner: + +“Gracious sir, I am sent by my master with his humble compliments to +invite you to dinner.” + +“Who is thy master?” demanded the king. + +But the messenger replied: + +“I cannot tell you, gracious sir, anything of my master” (for the fool +had forbidden him to say who he was); “but after you have dined together +he will give you a full account of himself.” + +The king, filled with curiosity to know who it could be that invited him +to dinner, told the messenger that he would come without fail; and the +messenger forthwith returned. Scarcely had he arrived when the king, +with all his ministers, came riding over the bridge to dine with the +fool. On the arrival of the king at the palace Emelian went out to meet +him, took him by the hand white as snow, kissed him on the mouth sweet as +sugar, and leading him into his palace of white marble, set him down to +the oaken table to the feast of sweet things and mead; and the king and +his ministers, sitting at the table, drank, ate, and were merry. Now +when they got up from table, and sat in their places, the fool said to +the king: + +“Gracious sir; do you know me, and who I am?” + +But as Emelian was then in a splendid dress, and moreover as his face was +very handsome, it was impossible to recognise him. Therefore the king +said that he did not know him. But the fool said to him: + +“Gracious sir, do you not remember how a certain fool came driving to +your court on a petsch, and how you shut him up with your daughter in a +barrel, which you covered over with pitch, and cast out upon the sea? +Know now that I am that very same Emelian.” + +The king, seeing that it was the fool who was now before him, was very +much frightened, and did not know what to do. But the fool at that +moment went for the princess, and led her before the king. The king on +seeing his daughter was very much delighted, and said to the fool: + +“I have sinned grievously against you; I therefore give you my daughter +as a wife.” + +The fool, on hearing these words, most humbly thanked the king; and as +Emelian had everything ready for the marriage, it was celebrated that day +with great magnificence. On the next day the fool gave a magnificent +banquet to all the ministers, whilst for the common people hogsheads were +brought out, full of all kinds of drinks. When the rejoicing was over +the king offered to resign his kingdom to him, but he refused to accept +it. Thereupon the king returned to his dominions. But the fool remained +in his palace, and lived in great happiness and prosperity. + + * * * * * + + LONDON + Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W. + _Edition limited to Thirty Copies_. + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EMELIAN THE FOOL*** + + +******* This file should be named 26789-0.txt or 26789-0.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/7/8/26789 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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Wise, +Translated by George Borrow + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Emelian the Fool + a tale + + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 6, 2008 [eBook #26789] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EMELIAN THE FOOL*** +</pre> +<p><a name="startoftext"></a></p> +<p>Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David +Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<h1>EMELIAN THE FOOL<br /> +<span class="smcap">a tale</span></h1> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Translated from the +Russian</i><br /> +<span class="smcap">by</span><br /> +GEORGE BORROW</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +<span class="smcap">printed for private circulation</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">1913</p> +<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>INTRODUCTION</h2> +<p>The tale of <i>Emelian</i>, of which we give here a version, +is highly popular amongst the peasantry of Russia, and is told by +them at their merry-makings from the upper shores of the Gulf of +Finland to the Ural Mountains. It bears some resemblance to +the tale of <i>Aladdin</i>, the pike playing in the Russian story +much the same part as the lamp in the Arabian one, and it is by +no means impossible that both tales are derived from the same +myth. But from whatever source the story of <i>Emelian</i> +may have sprung, the manner in which it is wrought is essentially +Russian, and from it, as here rendered, the English reader may +form a better idea of the <!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 6</span>way of life, and the feelings of the +Russian mujiks, or peasantry, than from a dozen common books of +travels in Russia. Emelian is represented as a fool, but +there is much in what he says and does common to the Russian +mujik in general. He lies in the izbushka, or cabin, upon +the petsch, or stove, and when told to get up, he says: +“What should I get up for?—Mnie zdies teplo, i ia +lieniós—’tis warm here, and I am +lazy.” There spoke the genuine mujik, the most +prominent features of whose character are a love of warmth and a +hatred of exertion, though, when he chooses to get up and rouse +himself, he is capable of very great things, can outwit the +tchort himself, bear hunger and fatigue better than any other +man, and contend even with the Briton at the game of the +bayonet. Perhaps we may hereafter present to the public in +an English dress some other popular tales illustrative of the +manner of life and ideas of the mujiks, to whom <!-- page 7--><a +name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 7</span>the attention +of the English public has of late been much directed, owing to +the ukase of the present Tsar, by which they are emancipated from +serfdom,—a measure likely to be productive of much weal or +woe throughout his extensive dominions.</p> +<p>The tale is as follows:—</p> +<h2>EMELIAN THE FOOL</h2> +<p><!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>In a certain village there lived a mujik, or yeoman, who +had three sons; two were clever, but the third was a fool, who +was called Emelian. When the good man had reached an +extreme old age, he called all his sons to him, and said:</p> +<p>“Dear children, I feel that I have not long to live; I +therefore leave you house and cattle, which you will divide in +equal portions. I also leave you money: a hundred roubles +for each.”</p> +<p>Soon after these words he died, and his children, having given +him a decent funeral, lived very comfortably. After a +little time, the brothers of Emelian took it into their heads to +start for the city, and employ in traffic the three <!-- page +9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 9</span>hundred +roubles which their father had left them; so they said to the +fool Emelian:</p> +<p>“Harkee, fool, we are going to the city, and will take +your hundred roubles with us, and if our traffic goes on +profitably we will buy you a red caftan, a red cap, and red +boots; but do you remain at home, and if your sisters-in-law, our +wives (for they were married) order you to do anything, be sure +you do it.”</p> +<p>The fool, wishing to receive the red caftan, red cap, and red +boots, told his brothers in reply that he would do whatever his +sisters-in-law should order him. After this, his brothers +set out for the city, and the fool remained at home, and lived +with his sisters-in-law. After some time, on a certain day, +when it was winter, and there was a terrible frost, his +sisters-in-law told him to go for water; but the fool, who was +lying on the petsch, or stove, said:</p> +<p>“Yes, indeed, and why not you?”</p> +<p><!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>“Why not we, you fool?” cried the +sisters-in-law; “don’t you see what a frost it is? +and that none but a man can go out in such weather?”</p> +<p>“But,” said he, “I am lazy.”</p> +<p>“Lazy?” screamed his sisters-in-law; +“won’t you presently want something to eat? And +if there be no water how can we boil anything?” +Thereupon they added, “Very well, when our husbands come +home with the red caftan and cap they promised him, we will tell +them to give him nothing.”</p> +<p>When the fool heard this he thought it best to go, for he +wished very much to get the red caftan and cap. So getting +down from the petsch he began to put on his stockings and boots, +and to dress himself; and when he was quite dressed, he took with +him a couple of pails and a hatchet, and went to the river: for +the village in which they lived stood very near the river. +When he had come to the stream, he began to hew away <!-- page +11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 11</span>at +the ice, and when he had made a very big hole, he filled his +pails with water, and placing them on the ice, he stood beside +the hole, and looked. Now as the fool stood and looked he +saw a very large pike swimming in the hole. Fool as Emelian +was, he nevertheless wished to catch the pike. He therefore +advanced softly, and coming near to it, seized it suddenly with +his hand, and pulling it out of the water, placed it in his +bosom, and began to make for home. But the pike said to +him:</p> +<p>“How’s this, fool? for what do you seize +me?”</p> +<p>“For what?” said he; “I shall carry you +home, and tell my sisters-in-law to boil you.”</p> +<p>“Not so, fool, don’t carry me home, but put me +back into the water, and I will make you a rich man.”</p> +<p>But the fool did not believe him, and was making for +home. The pike, seeing that the fool did not let him go, +said:</p> +<p><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>“Listen, fool, do but put me into the water, and I +will do for you whatsoever you wish, so that every desire of your +heart shall be fulfilled.”</p> +<p>The fool, hearing these words, was very glad; for, as he was +excessively lazy, he thought to himself—</p> +<p>“If the pike does whatever I ask all will be got ready +for me, and I shall have no need to work.”</p> +<p>He therefore said to the pike:</p> +<p>“I will let you go, only do what you promise.”</p> +<p>Thereupon the pike made answer:</p> +<p>“First place me in the water, and I will fulfil my +promise.”</p> +<p>But the fool said to him that he must first of all perform his +promise, and that he would then let him go.</p> +<p>The pike, seeing that he would not put him into the water, +said:</p> +<p>“If you wish me to do for you what you want, <!-- page +13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 13</span>you +must now tell me what it is that you desire.”</p> +<p>The fool said:</p> +<p>“I desire that my pails of water should march of +themselves up the hill” (for the village stood upon a +hill), “but so that none of the water be spilt out of +them.”</p> +<p>The pike immediately said to him:</p> +<p>“Remember, Emelian, the words which I am about to say to +you, and the words are as follows: ‘At the pike’s +behest, and at my request, march, pails, by yourselves up the +hill.’”</p> +<p>The fool repeated the words after the pike:</p> +<p>“At the pike’s behest, and at my request march, +pails, by yourselves up the hill.”</p> +<p>Forthwith the pails, and the yoke by which he was wont to +carry them, marched of themselves up the hill. Emelian, +seeing this, was very much surprised, and said to the pike:</p> +<p><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>“Will it always be so?”</p> +<p>To which the pike made answer:</p> +<p>“All things you wish will be done, even as this has been +done: only don’t forget the words which I have taught +you.”</p> +<p>Thereupon he released the pike into the water, and went +himself after his pails. The neighbours, seeing what was +going on, were filled with wonder, and said, amongst, +themselves—</p> +<p>“What is the fool about? The pails of water walk +of themselves, and he walks after them.”</p> +<p>But Emelian, without saying anything to them, went home, and +the pails went of themselves into the keeping-room, and placed +themselves on the bench, while the fool mounted upon the +petsch. A little time after, his sisters-in-law said to him +again:</p> +<p>“Emelian, what do you lie there for? go and cut some +wood.”</p> +<p><!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>But the fool said:</p> +<p>“Yes, indeed, and why not you?”</p> +<p>“We?” screamed his sisters-in-law; “it is +now winter, and if you do not go and cut some wood you will soon +be cold.”</p> +<p>“I am lazy,” said the fool.</p> +<p>“Lazy?” said his sisters-in-law to him, +“then you will be frozen.”</p> +<p>Thereupon they added:</p> +<p>“If you don’t go and cut wood we will tell our +husbands not to give you the red caftan, nor the red cap, nor the +boots.”</p> +<p>The fool, from the desire which he felt to obtain the red +caftan, cap, and boots, was obliged to comply with their +request. But as he was thoroughly lazy, and did not wish to +get down from the petsch, he said these words softly as he +lay:</p> +<p>“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, go, +hatchet, now, and cut down wood; and do you, <!-- page 16--><a +name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 16</span>wood, come of +yourself to the room, and stow yourself within the +stove.”</p> +<p>Forthwith, the hatchet, without anyone taking it, hopped +forth, and began to cut away, and the wood of itself came into +the room, and stowed itself in the stove, at the sight of which +the sisters-in-law wondered much at the craft of Emelian; and +every day, when the fool only ordered the hatchet to go out and +cut wood, the hatchet went and cut some. And in this manner +he lived with his sisters-in-law for some time. At length, +his sisters-in-law said to him:</p> +<p>“Emelian! we have no wood, so pray go out into the +forest and cut some.”</p> +<p>The fool said: “Why don’t you go +yourselves?”</p> +<p>“How should we go?” replied his sisters-in-law; +“the forest is a great way off, and as it is now winter, it +is too cold for us to go to the forest for wood.”</p> +<p><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span>But the fool said to them:</p> +<p>“I am lazy.”</p> +<p>“Lazy!” cried his sisters-in-law; “if you +don’t go you will soon be cold. But if you refuse to +go, when your brothers, our husbands, come home we will order +them to give you neither red caftan, red cap, nor red +boots.”</p> +<p>The fool, wishing to obtain the red caftan, cap and boots, +felt obliged to go to the forest for wood, and getting up from +the petsch, he began to put on his stockings and boots, and to +dress himself; and when he was quite dressed he went out into the +court, and drawing the sledge out of the shed, and taking with +him a rope and hatchet, he mounted the sledge, and bade his +sisters-in-law open the gate. The sisters-in-law, seeing +that he got into the sledge without putting the horses to it, for +the fool did not lead out the horses, said to him:</p> +<p>“How is this, Emelian? you have got into <!-- page +18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 18</span>the +sledge without putting the horses to it.”</p> +<p>But he said to them that he had no need of horses, and only +wanted them to open the gate. The sisters-in-law did so, +and the fool as he sat in the sledge, said:</p> +<p>“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, set +forward, sledge, to the forest.”</p> +<p>At these words the sledge forthwith went forth. The +country people living around were quite astounded to see Emelian +riding in the sledge without horses, and going with such speed +that, even if the best pair of horses in the world had been +fastened to the sledge, it would have been impossible to go +quicker. Now as it was necessary for the fool, in order to +reach the forest, to go through the town, he drove through it at +full speed; but as he did not know that it was necessary for him +to cry out, in order that the people might not be run over, he +drove <!-- page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 19</span>through the city without crying to +the people to get out of the way, and ran over a great number of +them, and although they gave chase to him, yet it was impossible +to overtake him. Emelian, having passed through the city +and reached the wood, stopped the sledge. The fool then +getting out of the sledge, said:</p> +<p>“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, fall, +hatchet, now to cutting wood; and do you, wood, gather yourself +into the sledge and be corded.”</p> +<p>Scarcely had the fool said these words when the hatchet began +to cut wood, and the wood, gathering itself up, placed itself in +the sledge, and tied itself with the cord. After he had cut +as much wood as he wanted, he ordered the hatchet to cut down a +small oak; and when the hatchet had done so, he placed himself +upon the load, and said:</p> +<p>“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, O +sledge, now travel home.”</p> +<p><!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>The sledge instantly set off very briskly. But +when Emelian arrived at the city in which he had run over so many +people, the folks were waiting for him in order to seize him, and +as soon as he drove into the city they set about dragging him off +the load and began to belabour him. The fool, seeing that +they were pulling him and beating him, said these words, in an +undertone:</p> +<p>“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, now, +sapling, break their arms and legs.”</p> +<p>Forthwith the sapling, springing out, began to beat them in a +pretty manner, and the people taking to flight, the fool drove +out of the town to his own village, whilst the sapling drubbed +all soundly, and went in pursuit of them. Emelian, on +reaching his home, mounted upon the petsch.</p> +<p>In the meantime, after he had driven out of the city, there +was much talk of him everywhere,—not because he had driven +over a <!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 21</span>number of people, but because he had +come driving to the city on a sledge without horses; and by +degrees the news reached the court, and came to the ears of the +king himself. The king, on hearing the story, felt no +little desire to see the fool, and sent an officer with some +soldiers to seek him. The officer proceeded without delay +out of the city, taking the road by which the fool had travelled +in order to go to the forest. On arriving at the village +where Emelian lived, the officer sent for the starost, or head +man of the village, and said to him:</p> +<p>“I am sent by the king to take your fool, and convey him +to his presence.”</p> +<p>The starost immediately showed him the house where Emelian +lived, and the officer, going into the kitchen, +demanded—</p> +<p>“Where’s the fool?”</p> +<p>The fool, who was lying on the petsch, answered—</p> +<p><!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>“What’s that to you?”</p> +<p>“What’s that to me? Dress yourself quickly +that I may carry you to the presence of the king.”</p> +<p>Quoth Emelian:</p> +<p>“What have I to do there?”</p> +<p>The officer, enraged at his answering so disrespectfully, +struck him on the cheek. The fool, feeling himself struck, +said softly:</p> +<p>“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, oak +sapling, break their hands and shins.”</p> +<p>The sapling hopping forth, began to beat them, drubbing them +all preciously, both officer and soldiers, so that the officer +was obliged to return discomfited. Arriving at the city, he +related to the king how the fool had beaten them all. The +king was very much astonished, and did not believe it possible +that he could have beaten so many. The king, however, +selected a prudent man, whom he sent with an <!-- page 23--><a +name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 23</span>injunction to +bring the fool to him if possible, even though he should have +recourse to deceit. The king’s envoy, arriving at the +village where Emelian lived, sent for the starost, and said to +him:</p> +<p>“I am sent by the king to fetch your fool; but first of +all, bring before me the people with whom he lives.”</p> +<p>The starost instantly ran and brought the sisters-in-law; and +the envoy asked them—</p> +<p>“What does the fool like?”</p> +<p>The sisters-in-law replied:</p> +<p>“Gracious, sir, our fool likes to be intreated to do a +thing; he refuses once and twice in order to be entreated a third +time, when he never refuses, but does all that he is +asked,—but he does not like to be spoken to +roughly.”</p> +<p>The envoy then dismissed them, warning them not to tell +Emelian that he had sent for them. After that, having +bought some raisins, <!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 24</span>prunes, and dried figs, he proceeded +to the house of the fool, and on his arrival he went up to the +petsch, and said:</p> +<p>“How’s this, Emelian, why are you lying on the +petsch?”</p> +<p>Then, giving him the raisins, prunes, and dried figs, he +said:</p> +<p>“Come, Emelian, I will carry you to the king.”</p> +<p>But the fool answered:</p> +<p>“I am warm here,” for he loved nothing but +warmth.</p> +<p>“Let us go, Emelian,” said the envoy, “you +will be quite comfortable there.”</p> +<p>“Aye,” said the fool, “but I am +lazy.”</p> +<p>Thereupon the envoy began to beseech him once more.</p> +<p>“Pray let us go, Emelian, the king has ordered a red +caftan to be made for you, and also a red cap, and red +boots.”</p> +<p><!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +25</span>The fool, hearing that a red caftan had been ordered to +be made for him, provided he went, said: “Do you go before, +and I will follow.”</p> +<p>The envoy, not wishing to trouble him any more, left him, and +asked privately of the sisters-in-law whether the fool would not +deceive him; but they assured him that he never deceived +anybody. The envoy then set forth on his return, and the +fool, placing himself once more on the petsch, said:</p> +<p>“O how I wish that I had not to go to court, but was +there already.”</p> +<p>Thereupon he said:</p> +<p>“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, move +straight, O petsch, to the city.”</p> +<p>Thereupon the walls of the room gave a crack, and the petsch +sallied forth, and when the petsch was clear of the house it +drove along with such rapidity that it was impossible to <!-- +page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>overtake it. On the road it overtook the envoy, +and drove in his company to the court. The king, being told +that the fool had arrived, went out to look at him, with all his +ministers, and seeing that Emelian came on the petsch, he was +filled with wonder. As for the fool, he lay still, and said +nothing. After a little time the king asked him why he had +run over so many people when he went to the forest for wood.</p> +<p>“How could I help it?” said Emelian; “why +did they not get out of my way?”</p> +<p>Just then, the king’s daughter came to a window, and +looked at the fool. Emelian, chancing to turn his eye to +the window from which she was looking, and seeing that she was +very handsome, said in an undertone:</p> +<p>“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, may yon +beauty fall in love with me.”</p> +<p>No sooner had he pronounced these words than the daughter of +the king fell in love with <!-- page 27--><a +name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 27</span>him as she +gazed upon him. And the fool, after that, said:</p> +<p>“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, move +back, petsch, to our own house.”</p> +<p>The petsch, without a moment’s delay, marched out of the +court, drove through the city, and made for home, where, on +arriving, it resumed its former place.</p> +<p>After that Emelian lived for some time quite at his ease; but +the king, in the city, fared very differently, for the princess, +having fallen in love with the fool at the words which he had +uttered, began to beg of her father to give her the fool for a +husband. The king was very much incensed both against her +and the fool, and wished very much to lay violent hands on the +latter, but did not know how. Thereupon the king’s +ministers proposed that the officer who had before gone for +Emelian, and had failed to bring him, should be sent again for +him on <!-- page 28--><a name="page28"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 28</span>account of his former failure. +The king, approving of their counsel, summoned the officer to his +presence, and when he appeared before him, the king said:</p> +<p>“Listen, friend, I sent thee for the fool before: but +thou didst not bring him; now for that offence I will send thee a +second time, and in order that thou mayest bring him without +fail, I tell thee that if thou dost bring him thou shalt be +rewarded, and if thou dost not thou shalt be punished.”</p> +<p>The officer, on hearing the words of the king departed without +delay in quest of the fool, and having arrived at the village, he +sent again for the starost, and said to him:</p> +<p>“Here is money for you, buy all that is necessary for a +good dinner to-morrow, invite Emelian, and when he is dining with +you ply him with drink until he falls under the table.”</p> +<p>The starost, knowing that he was sent by the <!-- page 29--><a +name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 29</span>king, did not +dare to disobey him, but purchased all that was necessary, and +invited the fool. Emelian having promised to come, the +officer expected him with great joy; and the fool coming the next +day, they plied him so hard with drink that Emelian lay down and +fell dead asleep. The officer, seeing that he was asleep, +immediately ordered his kabitka to be got ready, and to draw up +to the door, and when it drew up they placed the fool in +it. After that the officer got into the kabitka, and +carried him straight to the court. The ministers forthwith +gave information to the king of the arrival of the officer, and +the king no sooner heard of it than he gave orders for a great +barrel to be well fenced with iron hoops, which was forthwith +done, and the barrel was brought to the king, who, seeing that +all was ready, ordered his daughter and the fool to be placed in +the barrel, and the barrel to be covered with <!-- page 30--><a +name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 30</span>pitch. +No sooner had this been done than he commanded the barrel to be +cast into the sea, and was forthwith obeyed. The king then +returned to his palace, and the barrel, abandoned to its fate, +floated about for some hours. The fool all this time was +asleep; awaking, however, at last, and perceiving that he was in +darkness, he asked of himself—“Where am I?” for +he imagined that he was alone.</p> +<p>“You are in a barrel, Emelian,” said the princess; +“and they have placed me with you.”</p> +<p>“And who are you?” asked the fool.</p> +<p>“I am the king’s daughter,” she replied; and +then she related on what account she had been placed in the +barrel with him.</p> +<p>Thereupon she begged him to deliver himself and her from the +barrel. But the fool made no other reply than—</p> +<p>“I am warm enough here.”</p> +<p>“Pray have mercy upon me,” said the +princess. <!-- page 31--><a name="page31"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 31</span>“Take compassion on my tears, +and deliver me out of this barrel.”</p> +<p>“I’ll do no such thing,” said Emelian, +“I am lazy.”</p> +<p>The princess began again to beseech him:</p> +<p>“Have mercy upon me, Emelian; save me out of this +barrel, and do not let me die.”</p> +<p>The fool, being moved by her entreaties and tears, said to +her:</p> +<p>“Very well, I will do this one thing for +you.” After that, he said softly to himself: +“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, cast up, O +sea, this barrel, in which we lie, on some dry place, as near as +possible to our own country; and do thou, barrel on coming to dry +ground, go to pieces of thyself.”</p> +<p>Scarcely had the fool uttered these words when the sea began +to heave, and forthwith cast the barrel on dry ground, whereupon +the barrel went to pieces of itself. Emelian arose, and +<!-- page 32--><a name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +32</span>went with the princess farther up the land on which they +were cast, and the fool perceived that they were upon a very +beautiful island, on which were a great number of trees of +different kinds, and with all kinds of fruits; and the princess, +seeing these things, was very much rejoiced that they were upon +so beautiful an island. In a little time, however, she +said:</p> +<p>“But Emelian, where are we to live, for here I +don’t see a hut or any kind of shelter?”</p> +<p>But the fool said:</p> +<p>“You are already hankering for something +more.”</p> +<p>“Do be so kind, Emelian, as to order some kind of house +to be built,” said the princess, “in order that we +may have some place to take shelter in when it rains;” for +by this time the princess knew that he could do anything if he +did but please.</p> +<p>But the fool said:</p> +<p><!-- page 33--><a name="page33"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +33</span>“I am lazy.”</p> +<p>Whereupon she began to beseech him again, and Emelian, touched +by her entreaties, was obliged to do what she desired; and going +a little way apart from her, said:</p> +<p>“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, may +there be erected, in the midst of this island, a palace which +shall be twice better than the king’s; and may there be +from the palace a crystal bridge to cross the water by; and may +there be in the palace all kinds of servants.”</p> +<p>Scarcely had he pronounced these words when an enormous palace +with a crystal bridge made its appearance. The fool and the +princess, entering the palace, perceived that there was plenty of +magnificent furniture in the rooms, and that there were numbers +of people, both lackeys and officers, of various descriptions, +who were awaiting the commands of the fool. The fool, +seeing that all these people had a decent <!-- page 34--><a +name="page34"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 34</span>and +honourable appearance, and that he alone was a lout, wished to be +made better, and therefore said:</p> +<p>“At the pike’s behest, and at my request, be I now +made a youth so handsome as to have no equal, and possest of the +very best of understandings.”</p> +<p>These words were scarcely uttered when he became so handsome +and intelligent that everybody wondered. After this, +Emelian sent one of his servants to the king, to invite him and +all his ministers to the palace. The messenger of Emelian +rode to the king over that same crystal bridge which the fool had +built. On his arrival at court the ministers presented him +to the king, whom the messenger addressed in this manner:</p> +<p>“Gracious sir, I am sent by my master with his humble +compliments to invite you to dinner.”</p> +<p>“Who is thy master?” demanded the king.</p> +<p><!-- page 35--><a name="page35"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +35</span>But the messenger replied:</p> +<p>“I cannot tell you, gracious sir, anything of my +master” (for the fool had forbidden him to say who he was); +“but after you have dined together he will give you a full +account of himself.”</p> +<p>The king, filled with curiosity to know who it could be that +invited him to dinner, told the messenger that he would come +without fail; and the messenger forthwith returned. +Scarcely had he arrived when the king, with all his ministers, +came riding over the bridge to dine with the fool. On the +arrival of the king at the palace Emelian went out to meet him, +took him by the hand white as snow, kissed him on the mouth sweet +as sugar, and leading him into his palace of white marble, set +him down to the oaken table to the feast of sweet things and +mead; and the king and his ministers, sitting at the table, +drank, ate, and were merry. Now <!-- page 36--><a +name="page36"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 36</span>when they got +up from table, and sat in their places, the fool said to the +king:</p> +<p>“Gracious sir; do you know me, and who I am?”</p> +<p>But as Emelian was then in a splendid dress, and moreover as +his face was very handsome, it was impossible to recognise +him. Therefore the king said that he did not know +him. But the fool said to him:</p> +<p>“Gracious sir, do you not remember how a certain fool +came driving to your court on a petsch, and how you shut him up +with your daughter in a barrel, which you covered over with +pitch, and cast out upon the sea? Know now that I am that +very same Emelian.”</p> +<p>The king, seeing that it was the fool who was now before him, +was very much frightened, and did not know what to do. But +the fool at that moment went for the princess, and led her before +the king. The king on seeing his <!-- page 37--><a +name="page37"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 37</span>daughter was +very much delighted, and said to the fool:</p> +<p>“I have sinned grievously against you; I therefore give +you my daughter as a wife.”</p> +<p>The fool, on hearing these words, most humbly thanked the +king; and as Emelian had everything ready for the marriage, it +was celebrated that day with great magnificence. On the +next day the fool gave a magnificent banquet to all the +ministers, whilst for the common people hogsheads were brought +out, full of all kinds of drinks. When the rejoicing was +over the king offered to resign his kingdom to him, but he +refused to accept it. Thereupon the king returned to his +dominions. But the fool remained in his palace, and lived +in great happiness and prosperity.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 39--><a +name="page39"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 39</span><span +class="smcap">London</span><br /> +Printed for THOMAS J. 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